05 Rest API intro

• Learning objectives

• Review of the friday exercise: Activity Logger part 2. Prepare a short presentation of your solution.

• Why is RESTful API so Popular? (5:20)

• Http Status Codes Explained (5:06)

• REST API Tutorial. Read the following chapters:

  • Guiding Principles of REST
  • What is a Resource?
  • Resource Methods
  • REST API URI Naming Conventions
  • Idempotence
  • HTTP Methods
  • HTTP Response Codes

• Javalin documentation (skim quickly)

• Dog API
• Vet API

• The Great Poem API Exchange

• The Logging Hell
• API Documentation and Why it Matters

• Logback - skim
• Javalin Exception Mapping
• 3rd semester documentation format
• Rest-assured.io (5 min)
• Short Rest Assured Tutorial, read 1-7 (5 min)
• Hamcrest guide (skim and use for reference 10 min)

• Rest-assured overview
• The Gherkin Syntax
• General Theory about testing

• Gherkin Syntax
• Hamcrest Matchers
• Testing Poems API
• Logging
• We will work on transforming a simple API into a more advanced API with error handling and logging.

• Hotel API