05 Rest API intro

• Learning objectives

• Review of the SP-1: Prepare a short presentation of your solution for the Movies API exercise.

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

• Http Status Codes Explained (5:06)

• 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)

• Dog API
• Vet API

• The Great Poem API Exchange

• The Logging Hell
• API Documentation and Why it Matters

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

• Logging
• We will work on transforming a simple API into a more advanced API with error handling, validation and logging.
• If time permits, we will also work on documenting the portfolio project API using the documentation format we have been using in the course.
• Idea: create a loggin api where you log all errors and exceptions that happen in your API.

Keep working on your portfolio project, and implement a REST API for your project. Remember to document your API using the documentation format we have been using in the course.