dgeb

Recommendations for JSON API

I'm planning a series of pull requests for JSON API, many of which are related to issues already raised on Github. I've summarized them here to emphasize common themes:

• Center requests and responses upon primary resources and reference other resources relatively.
• By default, make as few assumptions as possible about what the client wants.
• Allow for a number of degrees of flexibility, all of which are optional, so that the client can customize the response.
• Provide sufficient recommendations for common API design patterns to inform default implementations.

I touched on a lot of these topics in my talk "Building Ambitious APIs with Ruby" at the Burlington Ruby Conference this summer: video + slides

dgeb

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