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Jul 16, 2023 API design pattern

Designing APIs with Swagger and OpenAPI

I’m continuing my API journey by reading books, viewing relevant YouTube videos, and reading relevant IETF RFCs. Today is a book review. Facts 21 chapters$38.39 (eBook) Chapters Part 1: Describing APIsIntroducing APIs and OpenAPIGetting set up to make API requestsOur first taste of OpenAPI definitionsUsing Swagger Editor to write OpenAPI definitionsDescribing API responsesCreating resourcesAdding authentication and authorizationPreparing and hosting API documentationPart 2: Design

Jan 15, 2023 API design pattern

API Design Patterns

I already mentioned how I’m trying to get to speed in the API world: reading books, viewing relevant YouTube videos and reading relevant IETF RFCs. Facts 30 chapters, $35.00The author is a Principal Software Engineer at GoogleHe’s also the author behind https://google.aip.dev/ Chapters IntroductionDesign principlesNamingResource scope and hierarchyData types and defaultsFundamentalsResource identification: How to identify resources in an APIStandard methods: The set of standard

Nov 11, 2018 builder design pattern state machine

The Builder pattern is a finite state machine!

Some weeks ago, I read the post referenced in a tweet. In short, the article provides two ways to generate the boilerplate code required by the Builder pattern: Lombok, to generate code at compile time and the Spark Eclipse plugin, to generate code at development time. However, I already wrote about the Builder pattern. And it’s a bit more complex than what’s described in the referenced post.

Apr 27, 2014 design pattern

The Visitor design pattern

I guess many people know about the Visitor design pattern, described in the Gang of Four’s Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software book. The pattern itself is not very complex as many design patterns go. I’ve known Visitor since ages, but I’ve never needed it… yet. Java handles polymorphism natively: the method call is based upon the runtime type of the calling object, not on its compile type.

Oct 6, 2013 design pattern Java scala

A dive into the Builder pattern

The Builder pattern has been described in the Gang of Four Design Patterns book: The builder pattern is a design pattern that allows for the step-by-step creation of complex objects using the correct sequence of actions. The construction is controlled by a director object that only needs to know the type of object it is to create.

Jul 28, 2009 book design pattern GOF

Patterns book trinity

A design pattern in architecture and computer science is a formal way of documenting a solution to a design problem in a particular field of expertise. — Wikipedia Design patterns are a common reference in our line of work. People who discuss a pattern often draw strange looks from people who don’t about it (or who don’t know about patterns in general). Of course, there are dozens and dozens of design patterns just waiting for us to know them. IMHO, today, the three follo