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Types of APIs

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Types of APIs

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- [Instructor] A very common way of creating APIs is called REST. When you make a REST API, you're following a set of standards laid out in the doctoral thesis of a guy named Roy Fielding. These are a set of principles that help make API development consistent and accessible. So REST is an acronym for REpresentation State Transfer and it's a way to create a simple and consistent interface for interacting with the service. Probably most APIs today are RESTful-ish in nature, and if you aren't sure what kind of API you're working with, a good guess is that it's RESTful. All the APIs that we've looked at so far in this course have been RESTful but there's other approaches as well. And another approach that you can use to define an API is the SOAP API approach. SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol. And we're not going to get into a lot of details on this but SOAP APIs used to be very popular and there's still many of…

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