json-api VS JsonApiDotNetCore

In addition to saving you time on boilerplate, the API provided by Hatchify fully implements the JSON: API specification, which stipulates solid standards to define the peculiarities of CRUD REST APIs. Get back all the time spent bike-shedding how to implement standard API features like filtering, pagination, including related data, etc. JSON: API offers consistent practices for frontend and backend developers to agree on how resources are fetched and returned. Since Hatchify provides the core of your API for you, you can count on it’s standardized functionality to give your API a consistent start.

-JSON:API format responses (https://jsonapi.org) for better standardization.

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I'd really appreciate your feedback on:

- The API's user-friendliness and efficiency.

https://github.com/json-api/json-api/issues/795

There is an atomic operations extension:

JSON:API to format each message

As we’re building a RESTful API that’s formatted by the JSON:API specification and store our data in a MySQL8 relational database, a few things were pretty straightforward – we need a new model and we’ll name it Custom Field (naming wasn’t an issue here 🥲).

I found json api spec[1] recently. This kind of is better standard for REST APIs. It is bit rough to handle client side but once you get the hang of it, it is breeze to use

[1] https://jsonapi.org/

That's it! Now we have a complete set of RESTful CRUD APIs at "/api/zen" that conforms to the JSON:API specification, and the access policies fully protect the APIs. The API provides rich filtering and relation-fetching capabilities. The following are some examples; you can find more details here.

Does this have any relation to https://jsonapi.org/ ?

Basic REST and JSON RPC are very simple to start with, but have common problems when application gets bigger. How do you represent relations, pagination, filtering etc? My go-to specification for structuring JSON documents is https://jsonapi.org/ It covers most basic needs of a standard API.

Well, that might be true when implementing from the scratch, but using a standard often also means, that someone has implemented a well known library to get rid of the boilerplate and basic decisions.

I personally often use jsonapi.net[1], a C# implementation of JSONAPI. This supports OpenAPI/Swagger with swashbuckle, has a very good filtering implementation and together with Orbit.js[2] it is pretty much without having to decide many things...

[1]: https://www.jsonapi.net/

It's so powerful that it even allows you to establish relationships between operations within a single request, using something called local IDs. Work is progressing quickly on the atomic-operations branch. Check it out on Github if you want to follow along.

In our previous post we setup a basic JSON:API compliant API with the 4.0 release of the JsonApiDotNetCore framework. You can find the code we wrote under the part-1 branch on Github.