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In the introduction to web APIs paragraph, I added a comment about the CRUD acronym. This is a useful concept for HTTP commands and what web APIs can do. Tags: Visual edit Possible vandalism |
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|work = [[PC World (magazine)|PC World]]
|date = 2008-04-23
}}</ref> Increasingly the CRUD acronym is being applied to the HTTP commands associated with web APIs.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Answers to Quiz|url = http://continualintegration.com/answers-to-quiz.html|website = Continual integration|accessdate = 2015-10-02}}</ref>
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The reference documentation for an API is an intrinsic part of any API, and without it the API is unusable. Every aspect of the API, no matter how trivial, should be stated explicitly.
When an API documents a library of functions in a procedural language, it should include:
* a description of all the [[data structures]] it depends upon
* a description of all the [[function (computer science)|functions]] [[method signature|signatures]], including:
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