It’s easy to get sloppy in your APIs, so here’s a refresher on how to be correctly RESTful in your client scripts Recently, I was trying to write a little client script for Apache Solr. It was just ...

RESTful clients can update the score by invocating the same URL through a PUT invocation while also passing query parameters. Again, the program will return a JSON-based representation of the score ...

APIs seem to be everywhere these days. Every popular online service has one. APIs allow developers to interact with online services without actually having to point and click their way through a UI.

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. REST (Representation State Transfer) is very popular these days. The architectural style is easy ...

Edge’s built-in developer tools have added a Postman-like REST API explorer. Now you can test applications without leaving your browser Much of the code we write these days depends on the web. After ...

A Web API is an online “application programming interface” that allows developers to interact with external services. These are the commands that the developer of the service has determined will be ...