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API design: handling multiple user account types
I’m designing a REST API where a single person can hold multiple account types.
For example, one person might have both a CareProvider and a CareSeeker account.
Each account type can have its own ...
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How to handle large file uploads in Angular and Hibernate without exceeding HTTP request size limit?
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I am working on an application using Angular (front-end) and Hibernate (back-end). My use case involves uploading multiple images, which I convert to base64 format and send as JSON with ...
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Pattern Matching on Request Body for Routing an HTTP Request
In an HTTP application, I think about routing requests based not only on the path, but also based on the request body. For an example, think about the following two different body schemas for a PUT ...
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Polling Application Misses 1/500 records from an OData Feed
I apologize in advance for the lack of knowledge. Please feel free to edit this question to use the appropriate terminology if it is not correct.
I recently wrote a .NET core application that is ...
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Identify user session for dynamic client interaction between a Cloud application and an Angular/Pyramid application
I’m writing a web application with an Angular client and a Pyramid/Python server. I need to dynamically interface with an external cloud application, with two requirements:
When the end user approves ...
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How to view the exact raw HTTP request on Postman? [closed]
When I'm sending a request, the raw log looks something like this:
GET / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: PostmanRuntime/7.36.3
Accept: */*
Cache-Control: no-cache
Postman-Token: 3d4eba45-388c-462c-a174-...
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Should I store session id in server database?
I wanted to implement login system using flask framework. I managed to do this using sessions and set them to expire after 31 days and it works (sessions are created using server secret key, timestamp ...
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Request validation on API proxy
I am creating an API proxy that acts as a bridge between our frontend application and an AWS opensearch server. This proxy has additional features such as retries and timeouts.
One of the features I'm ...
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HTTP REST API: Is it wrong to put search parameters in a custom header?
The contents of search string are typically sent as part of the URI query:
https://domain.name/resource?search=something+i+am+searching+for
Those same contents can be sent as the value of a custom ...
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Exchanging data between two Microservices
I am facing this problem and would like to review my approach to it here.
A Client sends an HTTP request to Service A and is expecting an answer.
Service A is connected to DB A. When it receives a ...
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Improve performance for HTTP Request with huge body
I'm struggling to understand how to improve the performance for an HTTP Request that comes with a huge body.
Now, let me explain better what I mean with performance!
Imagine I have a DB with the table ...
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What's the proper response when I try to update an existing entity but with not found parent ID
I have an update API (PUT/PATCH) entity/{id} to update a certain entity in my DB. Let's say:
entity {
id: number, // Primary key, unique, not null
content: text,
parentId: number // Foreign key, ...
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Should I keep the structure of the API request body same in all cases?
I have Items and Im creating an API which validates different aspects of an Item. eg: whether it has a valid height, width or depth.
My request body looks like
{
height_check: true,
width_check: ...
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What HTTP response to return for a patch request with partially correct and partially wrong
I have a campaign, which has URL as a child.
If I make a patch request to add a list of 3 URLs out of which first one is invalid URL, second URL already exists in the campaign and we do not want to ...
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Can I use POST request to read and transform data?
I'm developing an API that given a few parameters, reads the given data, transforms it and returns it as JSON.
Eg. (some logic included)
Request:
POST /myApi/exportAsText
Content-Type: application/...
