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The popularity of REST in recent years has led to tremendous growth in almost-RESTful APIs that don’t include many of the architecture’s benefits. With this practical guide, you’ll learn what it takes to design usable REST APIs that evolve over time. By focusing on solutions that cross a variety of domains, this book shows you how to create powerful and secure applications, using the tools designed for the world’s most successful distributed computing system: the World Wide Web.

You’ll explore the concepts behind REST, learn different strategies for creating hypermedia-based APIs, and then put everything together with a step-by-step guide to designing a RESTful Web API.

Examine API design strategies, including the collection pattern and pure hypermedia
Understand how hypermedia ties representations together into a coherent API
Discover how XMDP and ALPS profile formats can help you meet the Web API "semantic challenge"
Learn close to two-dozen standardized hypermedia data formats
Apply best practices for using HTTP in API implementations
Create Web APIs with the JSON-LD standard and other the Linked Data approaches
Understand the CoAP protocol for using REST in embedded systems

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Leonard Richardson (http://www.crummy.com/) is the author of the Ruby Cookbook (O'Reilly) and of several open source libraries, including Beautiful Soup. A California native, he currently lives in New York.

An internationally known author and lecturer, Mike Amundsen travels throughout the United States and Europe consulting and speaking on a wide range of topics including distributed network architecture, Web application development, Cloud computing, and other subjects. His recent work focuses on the role hypermedia plays in creating and maintaining applications that can successfully evolve over time. He has more than a dozen books to his credit and recently contributed to the book "RESTful Web Services Cookbook" (by Subbu Allamaraju). When he is not working, Mike enjoys spending time with his family in Kentucky, USA.

Sam Ruby is a prominent software developer who is a co-chair of the W3C HTML Working Group and has made significant contributions to many of the Apache Software Foundation's open source software projects. He is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Emerging Technologies Group of IBM.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (October 29, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 404 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1449358063
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1449358068
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Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.92 x 9.19 inches

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An internationally known author and speaker, Mike Amundsen travels the world consulting and talking about network architecture, Web development, and intersection of technology and society. He works with companies large and small to help them capitalize on the opportunities APIs and Microservices present for both consumers and the enterprise.
Amundsen has authored numerous books and papers. He contributed to the O'Reilly Media book, "Continuous API Management" (2018). His "RESTful Web Clients", was published by O'Reilly in February 2017 and he co-authored "Microservice Architecture" (June 2016). Amundsen's 2013 collaboration with Leonard Richardson "RESTful Web APIs" and his 2011 book, “Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node”, are common references for building adaptable Web applications. His latest book "Design and Build Great APIs" for Pragmatic Publishing is scheduled for release in early 2020.
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Omar Diab

Great book on the future of the web

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2013

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Fantastic book about hypermedia, a potential future for the web! I think this should be required reading for all API designers and consumers. It might not strike those who play fast and loose with code as very interesting, as its focused on good design rather than getting products out in record time, but I think it's something we should all follow.

It's very clearly written and accessible, and doesn't require too much knowledge to dive into. For reference, I started learning programming around 3 years ago through my current college major.

Here's the Cliffs Notes version:

The problem that the author approaches is that APIs these days are not consistent with one another or even with themselves. This causes several issues:

1) APIs are inflexible. Once you release them, it's very difficult to change them. This is ironic, since HTTP and the web is powerful because of its flexibility.
2) APIs are not machine-readable. You have to read prose documentation to figure out how they work, and every API is different. At the same time, API documentation is often not up to date or non-existent, and it's unscalable to expect all API developers to maintiain complete documentation for all the APIs that they ever work.
3) People create novel, non-standardized APIs for the same general tasks over and over again. There's a staggering amount of repeated work.

The hope is that following standards and imposing structure and metadata in your APIs will one day allow API clients to bridge what the author calls "the semantic gap," which amounts to making an API self-document itself by using standardized idioms and good RESTful web practices, a pattern that the author calls "hypermedia."

The book lays out the problems, solutions, and process of following good API practices clearly, as well as the kind of work that needs to happen to flesh out hypermedia. In this day and age I think anyone who is writing APIs should read this book first, for the betterment of all—programmers, users, and businesses alike.

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Good Overview - hope the errata and loose ends can be tidied up

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2013

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I appreciated the code-less look at RESTful APIs. (While it may be code-less, it begs for you to start making HTTP requests and responses all over the wild and examining the details of those in much greater detail.)

Because the book presented real URLs for the reader to see examples of API responses, there needs to be a way to indicate that the published URLs don't work or have replacements (or didn't work but have been fixed, etc.) The first place I went to look for that, and I don't think I was atypical, was in O'Reilly's errata for the book. As of December 2013 there are no items that have been moved from the "UNCONFIRMED ERRATA" category to "CONFIRMED ERRATA". Several of those unconfirmed submissions dealt with URL problems. (The "/api/" URL now returns results but the Content-Type is "application/json" : compare this with the response documented on page 18.) My impression as a reader if the errata isn't followed up on is that the author/authors aren't so concerned with the work after publication, and I suspect that's wrong in this case.

The profiles and ALPS section (Chapter 8) of the book tickled my interest, but when I looked for the "searchable repository of ALPS documents" at alps.io, it looked like that site hasn't quite firmed up.

Despite the annoyances above, I was happy with the content of the book and would recommend it. High points for me include: detail presented in the "Seven-Step Design Procedure" and that it turned me on to OData.

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Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2015

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I was very impressed by his book. It provides thorough coverage of RESTful web services from q design perspective, but it's written with developers in mind, and there is plenty of material her that will be of use to developers and designers alike. The author really emphasizes the role of hypermedia in API design and provides a good overview the main points in Roy Fielding's dissertation, and makes a good case for why as developers we should care.

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This is the book to get grounded in REST

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2013

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The author lays out the rules for REST and progresses through the reasoning. Masterfully done. I have three books on APIs going, this is the one I turn to.

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Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2015

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I had some expectation to get from the book when I bought the book, e.g., what are the principles, best practises, trends, etc, on designing restful web APIs. However, after going through the book (quickly in 1~2 days), I did not see much useful info for me.
The book seems telling or teaching readers how to design restful API using some standards (collections+json), but I do not buy it. The book said that there are so many different restful APIs, e.g., twitter API, facebook API, etc, which is a problem, but I do not see the rational why different companies have to design APIs in a common way (unless they have some need to interconnect). On the other hand, I see some problems using e.g., collectoins+json, e.g., not flexible enough, not concise enough.
The example maze throughout the book is hard to follow, or not that interesting.
I cannot justify if the book tells really valid points, but I just do not get what I expected. It may be the case that it is just not for me.

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Kimberly M.

Required college text

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2022

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This was a required text for a college course. It’s a decent textbook on the subject

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I strongly recommend this book

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2013

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this book help me a lot in order to get fully idea and understand the concept of RESTful in very clear way with enjoyable real life example

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Sean Williams

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Required reading for anyone that designs APIs!

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Coudert Nicolas

Splendide.

Reviewed in France on August 27, 2023

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On m'avait déjà conseillé ce livre, je ne suis pas déçu. À avoir dans sa bibliothèque !

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Nick Langlois

Dated But Good Foundation RESTFul Web APIs

Reviewed in Canada on August 11, 2019

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I purchased this book because it was recommended in the "Uncle Bob" videos (don't remember which one exactly). I am almost finished reading it as I still want to go through some of the appendices. My take away from this book is clients should "bridge the semantic divide" using hypermedia and self discovery. Also, take care when using machine readable API definitions that describe full services (e.g. WSDL) since it couples client implementations to server implementations. Also, since the book was written in 2013 (second edition in 2015) many of the protocols / hypermedia described in the book are no longer supported and lapsed standards. Still, the book provides a good foundation for RESTful Web APIs.

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Reviewed in Italy on June 1, 2018

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Decisamente un bel libro che spiega nel dettaglio come creare ad alto livello un interfaccia rest che abbia un design coerente.

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Guillermo

Buen libro

Reviewed in Mexico on October 28, 2016

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Aún no termino de leerlo, pero la forma en que los autores explican los conceptos son muy sencillas. Es un buen libro para iniciarse en REST.

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Kapil Gambhir

Beautiful written easy to read book on a fundametal concept of today's web.

Reviewed in India on September 11, 2016

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Easy read covering very important aspects of the core of web technology in today's world. Who can escape REST services, its become the foundation of almost everything being done in IT and its so important to get that right.
Its so easy to do it wrong especially considering how we have been designing and creating web sites before REST came out as a structured way of doing things the right and easy way.
There are so many design decisions that have to be taken in this path and this book helps in taking those with clarity.

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