Title: Learn about a real world API
Time: 30-60 minutes
Purpose: To apply your knowledge of learning about an API with a real one that is more complex then our testing one.
Introduction: At the end of Lesson 3 I challenged you to use our new skills of digging into an API and how it’s used, and applying that to an API at work or to Restful Booker if you don’t have one. Share what you’ve learned (in general is good too - don’t share any secret sauce for private APIs!) and maybe pick up some new tips and tricks here!
Activity:
Either with an API at work or with Restful Booker:
- Find some form of documentation like we discussed
- Use dev tools if the API has a UI
- Review the code for the API, especially the Controller(s)
- Compare the code with the documentation - are there any discrepancies?
- Share anything you’ve learned here in this thread - be sure not to share any “secret sauce”!