{"product_id":"restful-web-clients-mike-amundsen-9781491921906","title":"Restful Web Clients: Enabling Reuse Through Hypermedia","description":"\u003cp\u003ePowerful web-based REST and hypermedia-style APIs are becoming more common every day, but instead of applying the same techniques and patterns to hypermedia clients, many developers rely on custom client code. With this practical guide, you'll learn how to move from one-off implementations to general-purpose client apps that are stable, flexible, and reusable. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Author Mike Amundsen provides extensive background, easy-to-follow examples, illustrative dialogues, and clear recommendations for building effective hypermedia-based client applications. Along the way, you'll learn how to harness many of the basic principles that underpin the Web. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eConvert HTML-only web apps into a JSON API service \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOvercome the challenges of maintaining plain JSON-style client apps \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDecouple the output format from the internal object model with the representor pattern \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplore client apps built with HAL--Hypertext Application Language \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTackle reusable clients with the Request, Parse, Wait Loop (RPW) pattern \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearn the pros and cons of building client apps with the Siren content type \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeal with API versioning by adopting a change-over-time aesthetic \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCompare how JSON, HAL, Siren, and Collection+JSON clients handle the Objects\/Addresses\/Actions Challenge \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCraft a single client application that can consume multiple services \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mike Amundsen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1491921900\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781491921906\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e O'Reilly Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 7.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Mike Amundsen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44066079506687,"sku":"9781491921906","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2c778349-3bd8-4508-b673-a024c8b7a955.jpg?v=1685405226","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/restful-web-clients-mike-amundsen-9781491921906","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}