Driving is more opposed to generating than to #RESTAPIs.

"Getting to this point isn’t unusual. Clients clearly think they’re making the call correctly, or else they would fix the endpoint themselves. Some misspellings are difficult to catch. The enum USER_RETREIVE may not be noticed from USER_RETRIEVE, especially if picking it from a list. Misspellings happen and they’re not always caught before making it to the contract. As an aside, that’s why it’s important writers routinely check development’s changes. This applies, too, to our testing calls in Postman, where manually entering endpoints and values are more pervasive.

The reason this isn’t caught is simple: We’re not expecting it.

For our testing, the call is made and we get results. We may even spot check some of them. But generally, results aren’t examined that closely. For instance, how often do you so carefully examine a returned list of 50 or 100 items? You check may check that the objects are complete but not that the list conforms to the search criteria.

The reason this happens is because of an intentional behavior on the server. This behavior is called Lenient Handling or Strict Handling."

https://robertdelwood.medium.com/understanding-query-parameter-handling-in-rest-calls-1821e0c3fa8c

#APIs #RESTAPIs #Rest #APITesting #APIDesign #APIDocumentation #SoftwareDevelopment

Polished up the page summarising our various public APIs. There are still a few others that I intend to open up access to and add here, but these alone are already a fairly powerful toolkit 😉

Boosts/questions welcome.

https://apis.qweb.co.uk/

#WebDev #WebDevelopment #RESTAPIs

https://www.usebruno.com/compare/bruno-vs-postman
#developer #restapis #postmanalternatives

I swear my coworkers go out of their way to make their life harder, but never using the SDK for the product they are using and instead do everything through #RESTAPIs

I've been working on #PowerBits (a collection of #PowerShell scripts for #PowerBI 📊 #Admins) recently, and I just made a minor breakthrough. 💪😎👍

One of the biggest missing features of the Power BI #RESTAPIs right now is the ability to export a #Dataset as a #PBIX file. Of course, you can export a #Report as a PBIX file, and if that Report is bound to a Dataset, then the Dataset will be included with the Report when you export it. However, if the Dataset you need to export doesn't have a Report bound to it (I've started calling this a #BareDataset), then the #RESTAPI can't help you. That Dataset can only be exported manually from the Power BI Service using a web browser. Yuck! 🤮

To solve this problem:
1. Find and select a target #BareDataset
2. Upload a #BlankReport to the same #Workspace
3. Re-bind the blank Report to the bare Dataset
4. Export the blank Report as a PBIX file
5. Delete the blank Report from the Workspace

Step 1 Complete (mostly) 😅:
https://github.com/JamesDBartlett3/PowerBits/blob/main/PowerShell/Get-PowerBIBareDatasetsFromWorkspaces.ps1

RT @navigae_fr@twitter.com

Service Web RESTful l'API de Navigae est conforme à la spécification de l' OpenAPI Initiative http://openapis.org #OpenData #Swagger #OAS #RESTAPIs

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/navigae_fr/status/1130739403998023680