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Do we need APIs to just access databases?
At work, we have a Web application, which makes queries to databases, and I’m asked to determine if using Web APIs could be an added value.
Personally, I’m not convinced it is.
I know Web APIs are ...
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Is this service considered "an API"? Could it benefit from being Restful?
I'm confused about the meaning of API, specially in the context of REST. I'm thinking of one example.
My company creates an application that runs on a server (the "backend"). (JavaScript in ...
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How do I avoid reading from S3 every time the user updates a filter on the webpage?
I am building a web application where a user logs in, and uploads a CSV file with employee data to S3.
This is an example of the format of the file.
id
name
country
age
3243
John Doe
USA
48
Using ...
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How would I use TDD / BDD when my webapp interacts with an external REST API?
I'm following roughly the TDD style as explained in the "Obey the Testing Goat" book: You have a functional test for your (Django, in my case) web app that tests the observable behaviour via ...
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How to share users between multiple web application?
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I have to create way to use the same users to connect to multiple application, and i am thinking about how to do it and how to share the data between the applications.
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Each ...
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Is bytes as request parameters as rest endpoint a security risk?
I am working on an application where user can send in an absolute path of an image or URL as string in API endpoint. My code is able to handle that.
Now I have been asked to add the code which can ...
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Accessing Animal not belonging to User: 400, 401, 403, 404, other?
Consider animals being some REST resources. User has animals assigned to him.
The endpoint /api/animals/{animalId}/feed is used to feed a given animal by the authenticated user.
User should not be ...
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How can I design a secure content verification web application?
In my country, there is a high number of fraudulent doctor's sick letter as they are manually written on paper. I'm designing a web application to combat this issue and have the whole process ...
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Best way for resource (entity) relations loading in a REST API
We have a problem of load time in our REST API, which is the result of having Fat DTO (nested DTO s) & the N+1 problem (which is off my question), means that we are loading too much data in one ...
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How to keep user inputs consistent with assumed inputs to slow computations at the backend?
Background:
I'm writing a clinical trials simulator. The user defines future trial options, eg a trial with 100 placebo patients, 200 treatment patients, "optimistic" outcome scenario, etc. There can ...
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Http Status Code When Downstream Validation Fails
I have an API that charges for an order. It accepts the orderId and the amount as inputs. Then it makes a '/charge' call to the downstream, which returns a 202. Immediately after this call, it calls a ...
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HTTP 404 for REST calls from client side (browsers)
I'm having troubles with the issue of distinguishing between "real" 404s and 404s where the path is correct but the id, for example, doesn't exist when it comes to client side apps.
Most REST ...
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Authentication setup advice for web app and its backend API
I am fairly new to web development, and I am learning to build web applications. I am facing a problem figuring out how to set up authentication mechanisms for a multi-user application. Let me provide ...
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Synchronize multiples REST api, centralized into 1 web application
I am developing a web application for a client, connected to 4 differents sources :
E-commerce website
CRM
Emailing platform
Surveys platform
All the sources have REST Api's.
The web application ...
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Are data attributes good identifiers of certain blocks of HTML code?
I have a complex environment which is mostly oriented around / ends up spitting out blocks of HTML, which make up the entire page.
Now, I need a way to "point and click" identify any block on my page ...
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