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Kyle Fuller
April 17, 2015
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Unleashing Hyperdrive
Unleashing Hyperdrive, a Swift API client utilising Hypermedia and API Blueprint
Kyle Fuller
April 17, 2015
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Transcript
Hyperdrive API Client in Swift
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Traditionally
"Move fast and break things" Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
"Each version will remain for at least 2 years from
release." Facebook
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Move Fast, Break Nothing
Designing API by exposing implementation details
API Evolvability
Ability to change implementation details
Learn about controls, relations and transitions at run-time
Adding new features
Remove features
Ability to change implementation details 4 Change fields used in
forms 4 Change validation of attributes in forms 4 Change URIs of resources (/polls/{id} -> / questions/{slug}) 4 Change HTTP methods (PUT -> PATCH) 4 Change the content-type
Teach Clients Semantic meaning of the Domain
Don’t hard-code implementation details
Hyperdrive
hyperdrive(apiary: "pollsapi")
hyperdrive(blueprint: "https://polls.apiblueprint.org/")
hyperdrive(apiary: "pollsapi") { result in // Explore API feature availability
}
hyperdrive.enter("https://polls.apiblueprint.org/") { result in // Explore API feature availability }
Representor
if let questions = representor.links["questions"] { // The API offered
us a link to questions } else { // Gracefully handle when this feature is missing }
hyperdrive.request(questions) { result in }
representor.links
representor.transitions
if let create = representor.transitions["create"] { // API supports creation
} else { // Feature is missing // Let's not show the create button in our UI }
let attributes = [ "question": "Favourite language?", "choices": [ "Swift",
"Ruby", "Python", ] ] hyperdrive.request(create, attributes) { }
create.attributes
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create.validate(["email": "kyle"]) ❌
create.validate(["email": "
[email protected]
"]) ✅
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Change our API
Demo
Hyperdrive
Hyperdrive β
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kyle fuller kyle @ apiary.io