Coarse-grained APIs
A coarse-grained API is a kind of API design that combines multiple granular-level operations into a single function to provide highly encapsulated services. With fewer, more significant calls, it effectively represents a high-level action or series of actions. A coarse-grained API can complete an equivalent task with fewer requests than a fine-grained API, which needs multiple requests to complete a single task. For instance, a fine-grained API would normally offer distinct endpoints for the creation of new users, the addition of roles to existing users, and the assignment of permissions to existing users within the framework of user management systems. A coarse-grained API, on the other hand, might provide a single endpoint to carry out each of these tasks in a single request.
The following are the key features of coarse-grained APIs:
- Composite operations: A single API call can perform several operations using coarse-grained APIs. This “one-stop...
