March 21, 2012
Kevin recently blogged about Dovetail Bootstrap, a free, sample application which helps Dovetail SDK developers get up and going and creating web applications quickly. The code for Dovetail Bootstrap is open and available on GitHub. Feel free to watch, fork and improve the code. One of the capabilities demonstrated in Dovetail Bootstrap is a web API – specifically the Create Case API. I wanted to do a quick walkthrough of calling this API. Wikipedia has this to say about Web API: A web API (Application Programming Interface) is typically a defined set of HTTP request messages along with a definition of the structure of response messages, typically expressed in JSON or XML. While "web API" is sometimes considered a synonym for web service, the Web 2.0 applications typically have moved away from SOAP-based web services towards more direct REST-style communications. The example we’re showing here fits into this definition nicely. Simple, direct, REST-style interfaces. Usage …
Using the web APIs in Dovetail Bootstrap
March 21, 2012
Kevin recently blogged about Dovetail Bootstrap, a free, sample application which helps Dovetail SDK developers get up and going and creating web applications quickly. The code for Dovetail Bootstrap is open and available on GitHub. Feel free to watch, fork and improve the code. One of the capabilities demonstrated in Dovetail Bootstrap is a web API – specifically the Create Case API. I wanted to do a quick walkthrough of calling this API. Wikipedia has this to say about Web API: A web API (Application Programming Interface) is typically a defined set of HTTP request messages along with a definition of the structure of response messages, typically expressed in JSON or XML. While "web API" is sometimes considered a synonym for web service, the Web 2.0 applications typically have moved away from SOAP-based web services towards more direct REST-style communications. The example we’re showing here fits into this definition nicely. Simple, direct, REST-style interfaces. Usage …