Application Programming Interface. API.

Contents at a Glance.

• About
• Documentation.
• What is an API?
• Type of APIs.
• Help

About.

Documentation.

What is an API?

• API - Application Programming Interface
  • API is a rather broad term - covering a wide range of meanings
• Application - A computer application
  • Web Site, Mobile Application, any computer program
• Programming - Instructions to complete a task
• Interface - A point where two systems meet and interact
• An API is a method for two computer applications to speak to each other

Type of APIs.

• APIs come in many flavors
• Clicking on a link in an email message is executing an API
  • Tells your device to open the web browser and go to this website
  • This action is performed via an API
• Some APIs are very technology specific - considered CLOSED
  • For example on a mobile device where one application opens another
• Others adopt broadly accepted standards - considered OPEN

API idempotency.

Faces del ciclo de vida una API.

1. Estrategia
   • Definir los objetivos que se desea alcanzar con las API.
   • Que mercado se va abordar.
   • Que recursos se tienen a disposicion.
   • Que marco de tiempo se tiene para alcanzar los objetivos.
2. Diseno
   • Indentificar entidades de negocio.
   • Modelar entidades de negocio.
   • Documentar API
   • Disenar el contrato de la API (Open API)
   • Compartir diseno con futuros consumidores (YAML)

Interesting links.

• Full API lifecycle management: A primer

Help.