Questions tagged [client]
It refers to client-server model where service requester is called client.
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Are there some best practices how to build a client library for an API?
I was tasked to create an API client library for our already existing API. I tried to research some ways how to approach this but couldn't find anything. Are there some best practices how to build ...
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How to represent the absent of a field value in json response?
I am a react developer and writing the client on pure JS. I have sometimes missions to received data from server and send data to server. Now between the client team and backend rough discussion ...
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Microservice & Clients interaction : Best way to persist previous API state information in successive API calls
Problem We have multiple microservices, like Home, Menu & Cart, exposed via Gateway. Each one has API exposed to the app. Now, each API has certain information that is needed by the successive API....
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Auth flow between two services
We have two applications, each of them separated with its own backend and frontend. The first application is the user-facing one. They register on the site and as soon as they want to execute a ...
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Decoupling data validation from data processing
I'm trying to implement a web service API client using the guidlines i've found in this article: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-evolvable-web/9781449337919/ch09.html As it comes to my ...
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Communicating error conditions in client API for remote RESTful server, what's the best way?
I'm writing an application based on a RESTful API located in a server (written in Python). An Android app will access the API endpoints to get, post, put or delete data. The usual. The server has a ...
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Should I Decompose Client Classes?
I'm writing an SDK for the European Space Agency's DISCOs API. This has around 10 endpoints with different sets of query parameters, each of which returns a different payload type with different link ...
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API design: how to minimize client support?
I am tasked with designing an API for a car registration service. I don't have all the details yet, but we will receive requests from car dealers via API that my client will then process and forward ...
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How do client-side libraries prevent spoofing? [closed]
I'm looking at Segment's documentation right now and they have something called a "write key" that you include in your client-side JavaScript in order to send analytics data to the backend. ...
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Should the client silently fix a possible error or should it let the user of the client know about the error?
I'm building a client for an API. The API takes a query param that looks something like this 2-10, that's a range and notice that it uses a hyphen (-). Usually, data comes from another place using en ...
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What is the standard method for updating client views of data?
I'm working with a client who currently uses a database system that they've outgrown, so we're re-building it using a different platform that can handle their growth. One feature of their current ...
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Should an http API client hide the http response object?
I'm using a client library for an HTTP API. The client exposes objects and methods matching the domain, e.g. Api::Document.download, but the return value is just the http response from the API. As the ...
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Teams do relative estimations, business wants absolute estimations. How to make everyone satisfied?
This is the case: Clients want to know how much time will be needed to finish a particular task (not the group of tasks). They are asking for man/days absolute estimation and only when they get it, ...
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Can a C# AnonymousPipeServerStream create a non .NET client?
For example, if I want to write a daemon program in C# that uses anonymous pipes to communicate with programs written in another language, is this both possible and feasible? I ask because I intend ...
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Implementing both Sync and Async clients with DRY
I'm developing a client library. I'd like to provide both Sync and Async interfaces to endpoints on a server. They would be rather easy to implement as completely separate entities, but I would like ...
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