API

What is an API?

• An API is a set of programming code that enables data transmission between one software product and another. It also contains the terms of this data exchange.

• Application programming interfaces consist of two components:
• Technical specification describing the data exchange options between solutions with the specification done in the form of a request for processing and data delivery protocols
• Software interface written to the specification that represents it

Types of APIs :

Web APIs:

• Open APIs
• Internal APIs
• Partner APIs
• Composite APIs

  API Architectures and Protocols:

• REST
• JSON-RPC and XML-RPC

• TLS options

• In Node.js SuperAgent supports methods to configure HTTPS requests:
• .ca() : Set the CA certificate(s) to trust.
• .cert() : Set the client certificate chain(s).
• .key() : Set the client private key(s).
• .pfx() : Set the client PFX or PKCS12 encoded private key and certificate chain.
• .disableTLSCerts() : Does not reject expired or invalid TLS certs.