What are the different types of APIs?
Karamjit Mangat
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Different types of APIs are available according to the user and application.
Web APIs?– Web APIs help to access the application using HTTP protocols. The technologies used in web APIs are REST, JSON, .NET, Java, etc. These web APIs can be accessed using computers, tablets, and smartphones.
Local APIs?– For local API the developers use local middleware applications.
Program API?– Program API uses RPC (Remote Procedure Call) to make the remote program appear to be local. SOAP (Service Object Access Protocol) is the best example of this API.
Other types of API are:
Service Object Access Protocol (SOAP)?– SOAP is a web-based software with high security of data transmission. SOAP API is commonly used for payment solutions, telecommunication, together with financial services.
Representational State Transfer (REST)?– REST architecture constraints are also known as Restful APIs and it supports different formats like XML, JSON, HTML format. REST is an alternative for SOAP, it is difficult to build. SOAP follows XML format only.
Javascript Object Notation (JSON ) API?– JSON API helps to reduce the number of requests and responses from client and server. JSON API is easy to use. JSON API is one of the best APIs which helps medical data.