API Specifications and Best Practices | MuleSoft Mysore Meetup #4

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API Specifications and Best Practices | MuleSoft Mysore Meetup #4 What is RAML? API Specification vs. API Fragment Various Fragment types and their usage Speaker:- Abhishek Bathwal Organizers:- Shubham Chaurasia, Giridhar Meka

October 22, 2022 11:00 am IST
Mysore MuleSoft Meetup
Fundamentals of RAML

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• Introduction
• RAML
- What is RAML?
- API Specification vs API Fragment
- Different Fragment types and their usage
o Traits
o Library
o Data Type
o Resource Type
o Security Scheme
- Best Practices
• Trivia
• Wrap-up
Agenda

Introduction
• About the Organizers
Giridhar Meka
HashedIn
Sr. Technical Architect
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Shubham Chaurasia
Billennium India
Professional Integration Developer
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Introduction
Abhishek Bathwal
Apisero Inc.
Associate Solution Architect
 MuleSoft Ambassador
 MuleSoft Meetup Speaker
 Guwahati & Lucknow Meetup Leader
 Certified MuleSoft Developer and Architect
 7+ years of Total Experience, 5+ years in MuleSoft
 Working as Associate Solution Architect at Apisero Inc.
• About the Speaker:

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What is RAML?
RAML stands for RESTful API Modeling Language. It's a way of describing
practically-RESTful APIs in a way that's highly readable by both humans and
computers. We say "practically RESTful" because, today in the real world, very
few APIs today actually obey all constraints of REST.
RAML lets you see what your API looks like as you design it, using easy to read
plain text. Without having to write a single line of code you can not only perfect
your API design, but also create a fully functional mock for customers, partners,
or even your own internal engineers to review and build off of.

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API Specification vs API Fragment
- An API fragment is a portion of an API
specification, which is why understanding
it starts at the API specification level.
- An API spec consists of a plan of how your
API should look structurally.

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Let’s go over the Fragments
• Traits
• Library
• Data Type
• Resource Type
• Security Scheme

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Best Practices
• Modularize or Fragmentation
• Naming standards Get Accounts Details
o Kebab-case  get-account-details
o camelCase  getAccountDetails
o snake_case  get_acounts_details
o PascalCase  GetAccountsDetails

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