Web APIs - Challenges, Design Points, and Research Opportunities: Invited Talk at the 2nd International Workshop on API Usage and Evolution (WAPI ’18)

Erik Wittern
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Web Application Programming Interfaces (Web APIs) provide programmatic, network-based access to remote data or functionalities. Applications, for example, use the Google Places API to learn about nearby establishments, use the Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook API to connect users with friends and family, or use the Stripe API to accept end-user payments. Increasingly, applications themselves consist of micro-services that expose their capabilities to one another using web APIs. In comparison to library APIs, which are a common subject of software engineering research, web APIs present unique challenges - both for providers and consumers - that are arguably much less explored yet. In this talk, we outline the characteristics of web APIs causing these challenges. We discuss relevant design points, both for providers and consumers, and how these design points have been implemented by different web API paradigms in recent years. Throughout the talk, we give examples of our research to address web API-related challenges. Our goal is to inspire WAPI attendees to take on some of the many research opportunities surrounding web APIs.
Web API——挑战、设计要点和研究机遇:第二届API使用与发展国际研讨会(WAPI’18)特邀演讲
Web应用程序编程接口(Web api)提供对远程数据或功能的可编程的、基于网络的访问。例如,应用程序使用Google Places API了解附近的场所,使用Twitter、Instagram或Facebook API将用户与朋友和家人联系起来,或使用Stripe API接受最终用户支付。越来越多的应用程序本身由微服务组成,这些微服务使用web api相互公开其功能。与库api相比,库api是软件工程研究的一个常见主题,而web api对提供商和消费者都提出了独特的挑战,这些挑战可以说还很少被探索。在这次演讲中,我们概述了导致这些挑战的web api的特征。我们讨论了提供者和消费者的相关设计要点,以及近年来不同的web API范例如何实现这些设计要点。在整个演讲中,我们给出了解决web api相关挑战的研究示例。我们的目标是激励WAPI的参与者参与围绕web api的许多研究机会。
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