API Design 2020

Designing API

• What kind of resources are needed
• What kind of actions will be taken
• What kind of endpoints should be designed

Testing API

Testing API using curl

GET Method

curl 'https://[URL]/[resource].json'

curl -X PUT -d '{"key":{"nested_key":"value"}}' \

  'https://[PROJECT_ID].firebaseio/users/tom.json'

curl -X PATCH -d '{"key":"value"}' \

 'https://[URL]/[resource].json'

curl -X POST -d '{"key":{"nested_key":"value"}}' \

  'https://[PROJECT_ID].firebaseio/users/tom.json'

curl -X DELETE \

'https://[PROJECT_ID].firebaseio/users/tom.json'

Use curl to check the documentation to see what the API does