A Day of REST 2016

Transcript

1. Introduction to the REST API Ryan McCue
 Senior Engineer at

   Human Made

2. What is the API?

3. What is the API?

4. Why is the API? A history of the API

5. Existing WordPress APIs

6. XML-RPC Existing APIs & friends Most powerful:

7. JSON-RPC Existing APIs

8. Existing APIs

9. JSON-RPC Existing APIs

10. admin-ajax Existing APIs & friends Most developer friendly:

11. RSS Existing APIs & friends Most used:

12. RSS.js Existing APIs

13. Existing APIs

14. RSS.js Existing APIs

15. The World Wide Web

16. World Wide Web

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21. World Wide Web

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24. World Wide Web

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27. WordPress.com API

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29. .com API …REST?

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31. .com API WordPress.com specifics

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33. .com API Inspiration

34. .com API Unification

35. Birth of a Plugin

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37. JSON

38. JSON Language Support

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42. JSON Not XML

43. JSON JSONP

44. JSON

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46. JSON

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48. JSON

49. JSON /**/callback({…

50. REST

51. REST Browser Support

52. REST RPC

53. REST Challenges

54. Response Format

55. Responses Breaking from Core Names

56. Responses Posts ID => id post_content => content
 post_name =>

    slug

57. Responses Comments comment_ID => id comment_content => content
 post_name =>

    slug

58. Responses Terms term_id => id
 name => name slug =>

    slug

59. Responses Users ID => id
 display_name => name user_nicename =>

    slug

60. Responses Enveloping

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62. Responses $ http demo.wp-api.org/wp-json/v2/wp?_envelope HTTP/1.1 200 OK { "body": {

    "name": "WP API Demo", "description": "Just another WordPress site”, "_links": { ... }, "headers": { "Allow": "GET" }, "status": 200 }

63. Responses HAL

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65. Responses JSON Schema

66. Infrastructure

67. Infrastructure Request & Response

68. Infrastructure Separation of Concerns

69. Infrastructure REST Server vs Rewrites

70. Problems

71. Problems It’s New

72. Problems Meta

73. Problems Authentication

74. Bad / Good?

75. Help Us!

76. Thanks. speakerdeck.com/rmccue