RESTful Web APIs Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's Leonard Richardson Page | Language: English | ISBN:
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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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- Paperback: 408 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media (September 27, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449358063
- ISBN-13: 978-1449358068
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 0.8 inches
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This is an "ideas" book ... it is both implementation- and platform-agnostic, and there isn't a single line of code anywhere between its covers (except for HTML and JSON data structures.)
As expected from an "ideas" book, the text is peppered with first person thoughts, rhetorical questions, and very strongly held opinions (e.g., "REST beat SOAP" and "JSON beat XML".) If you buy into these, the book will feel natural and even inspired. If you don't, your hackles may get a workout.
Nevertheless, it ultimately does what any good "ideas" book should do - stimulates your thinking.
From a conceptual perspective, this book provides stellar explanations on topics that are must-knows for REST-practitioners. E.g., on the differences between protocol semantics and application semantics; and the relevance of HATEOAS when it comes to the semantic web.
A minor disappointment for me was that the "API" in the title was defined at a higher-level than I'd have liked. At its core, it merely proposes that a new API should not be a custom one-off, but instead should use standards whenever possible. As a result, it focuses on explanations of standards such as those that deal with collections, URI Templates, and hypermedia controls. However, it punts on the more prosaic elements of good REST API design - such as the identification of resources and operations, for a given domain.
This book's contents could also have benefited from better organization. Concepts were spread out geographically, and often needed a lot of paging back and forth to assemble a complete picture.
Despite these minor quibbles, I thoroughly enjoyed the read.
Only having a basic understanding of REST, this book introduced many new concepts and topics to me. For example, I had never heard of the ColIection+JSON standard or JSON-LD. Hypermedia was also a topic that I had barely heard about but was introduced to in this book. I thought it was interesting how the author called out a short process for how to add hypermedia to an existing API as well as if it was worth the effort. These are important questions to ask rather than just suggesting everything needs to be rewritten to be new. Also, standards are mentioned and referred to in this work, which I am guessing is due to the writer's experience as noted on the back cover. Not a negative to include that information, but I was not used to seeing specification notes in many of the traditional tech books I have read recently. The material for me was overall about how to talk about and work with REST concepts correctly. Semantics are addressed as well as when you would probably use this over that, etc. Guidance also seems helpful in sections such as "What Hypermedia Is For". I do appreciate code from the book being out on Github as well as on the book's website. While the examples are in Node.js at this time - it looks like the website is asking for different programming language ports-so examples have the potential to be added/ported over time. In summary, this book is for those looking to really take time and think about their APIs and if they are working with proper (or I guess one could only say proper in the authors' experience) REST techniques. If you need a quick tutorial to get from zero to done fast, this probably is not the material for you. As a side note, I found Appendix A and B as useful and quick references for HTTP codes and headers, but ymmv.
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