What information do you feel is most valuable when integrating a Web API (REST or SOAP)?
4th October 2013
My answer to What information do you feel is most valuable when integrating a Web API (REST or SOAP)? on Quora
- A really good API explorer
- Comprehensive documentation of the response format, including what happens if certain fields are missing (empty string, null value, missing key?)
- Comprehensive documentation of the available request parameters, including allowed values
- What are the rate limits?
- What is returned if there is an error?
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