#350 REST API Versioning

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English - May 16, 2012 07:00 - 10 minutes - 14.5 MB Video - ★★★★★ - 58 ratings
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APIs should be consistent, but it is difficult to do this when returning a JSON response along side the HTML interface. Here I show how to add a versioned, RESTful API. The version can be determined from either the URL or HTTP headers.