UW Advanced Rails Week 4

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1. Questions from Week 3? 1
2. Week 4: Building APIs Spring 2015 2
3. Why an API? Allow other applications to interface with our services Useful for data driven development 3
4. REST API Data Formats JSON JavaScript Object Notation MIME type: application/json XML Extensible Markup Language MIME type: application/xml and text/xml 4
5. JSON Example { "shorturl": "lf64kr", "user": { "id": 2, "name": "benwoodall", "email": "mail@benwoodall.com" }, "array": [1,3,5,7] } 5
6. XML Example <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <root> <shorturl>lf64kr</shorturl> <user> <id>2</id> <name>benwoodall</name> <email>mail@benwoodall.com</email> </user> <array>1</array> <array>3</array> <array>5</array> <array>7</array> </root> 6
7. Building an API in Shortener 7
8. We need an API end-point to create short urls Requests should be authenticated against 8 What do we know so far?
9. Tests 9 spec/controllers/api/v1/links_controller_spec.rb
10. respond_to 10
11. respond_to 11
12. Namespacing 12 config/routes.rb
13. Namespacing 13 config/routes.rb app/controllers/api/base_controller.rb
14. Namespacing 14 config/routes.rb app/controllers/api/base_controller.rb app/controllers/api/v1/links_controller.rb
15. Testing 15 spec/controllers/api/v1/links_controller_spec.rb
16. Creating a Link 16 app/controllers/api/v1/links_controller.rb
17. Authenticating 17 app/controllers/api/base_controller.rb
18. Authenticating 18
19. Authenticating 19
20. Authenticating 20 app/models/user.rb
21. Views 21 app/views/settings/index.html.erb
22. JBuilder 22 app/views/api/v1/links/show.html.erb
23. Questions? 23