Introduction to mobile application development

HTTP APIs

  • Explore the http protocol in more depth
  • Understand the difference between GET and POST http requests
  • Be able to trace a http request/response cycle

Slides

a-internet-and-http.pdf b-spacebook-trace.pdf c-api-intro.pdf

Lab

Start

Objectives

  • Implement a simple coffeemate API in Play
  • Translate the coffemate objects itnto Json format.
  • Generate and trace requests to the API using the chrome browser.
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Prepared by Eamonn de Leastar (edeleastar@wit.ie). Except where otherwise noted, this content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License