Rest API

Learning objectives

• Learning objectives

Monday

• Review of SP-1. Prepare a short presentation of your solution. Team members prepare to present their solution together. The goal is to get an overview of how far you have come, and what challenges you had, and what you have learned. Your SP-1 team might be split up in more review groups - but to keep it simlple, we will stick to the usual review groups.

Tuesday (class)

Prepare for class

Videos

• Why is RESTful API so Popular? (5:20)

• Http Status Codes Explained (5:06)

Reading

• REST API Tutorial. Read the following chapters:
  • Guiding Principles of REST
  • What is a Resource?
  • Resource Methods
  • REST API URI Naming Conventions
  • Idempotence
  • HTTP Methods
  • HTTP Response Codes
• Javalin documentation (skim quickly)

Exercises in in class

• Dog API
• Vet API

Wednesday (CodeLab)

• The Great Poem API Exchange

Thursday (class)

Prepare for class

Video

• The Logging Hell
• API Documentation and Why it Matters

Reading

• Logback - skim
• Javalin Exception Mapping
• API documentation - skim
• 3rd semester documentation format

Exercises in class

• Logging
• We will work on transforming a simple API into a more advanced API with error handling and logging.

Friday (exercise day)

• Hotel API

Jörg’s GitHub Link

https://github.com/tysker/dog_api_class.git

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• Learning Objectives
• Exercises