4 posts tagged with "API"

For API-based projects, we heavily rely on API Platform as the foundation. How can I attach some metadata to my input DTO? That was a task I wanted to solve recently.

Years ago, a good friend showed me httpie as a curl alternative to talk to external APIs. I got hooked immediately by httpie's expressive and intuitive syntax, the colorized and formatted terminal output, and the persistent session's functionality.

We returned to the charming city of Lille for this year's edition of the API Platform Conference. However, this time, we weren't merely attendees; we were speakers. As we again set foot in France, we knew we were in for another exceptional experience.

In a current Magento 2 project we are focussing on building a headless instance that communicates with a kind of PWA application. In such an environment testing the APIs via Postman makes sense and since the Magento 2 API is documented via Swagger, one can easily import the API definition into Postman. Here is how to do it with httpie: