All developers building software for the web have heard about Application Programming Interfaces, or, as they are also called, APIs. In this blog, we tell you a little more about them.
The entire essence of APIs is to make a call to the server from the client, receive data, and display it. In other words, REST APIs work by fetching requests for a specific data set from a database, then returning all information relevant to the data set that was requested. However, there’s one more type of an API that is very frequently discussed – the SOAP API.
SOAP translates to Simple Object Access Protocol, and, as the name suggests, it’s a little more complex than REST is – organizations usually use SOAP because they either require more comprehensive security measures, ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) compliance, or because someone’s building an application that needs to interact with a legacy system.
SOAP APIs are easily differentiable from their REST counterparts by simply looking at the code of the application – if an API is of SOAP type, the request to the API should be provided in an XML request body.
Organizations frequently make use of APIs in a couple of scenarios:
By now, you should have a pretty good grasp about Application Programming Interfaces. The question is – will the capabilities provided by them help your applications thrive and succeed? And the most likely answer, unsurprisingly, is yes. Think about it – APIs are everywhere. If we judge by the use cases mentioned above, we can already see that the capabilities of APIs help a wide variety of industries and have a wide variety of use cases. APIs are already heading our way and it’s only a matter of time before an API is implemented into the company you happen to work at.The API of BreachDirectory is also helping numerous companies to put their security first – the BreachDirectory API lets companies search through hundreds of data breaches and secure their team in seconds. With an unlimited amount of requests, you will always be the first to know whether hackers are threatening the wellbeing of the infrastructure of your company. Don’t let your company be the next one in the list of leaked data breaches – implement a data breach API to be safe. Finally, the capabilities provided by the API might not be for everyone – if that’s the case, make sure to run a search through the data breach search engine to stay on the safe side. Until next time!
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