Chapter 12: Getting Some REST
It is a massively huge world out there! You are going to want your application to connect to it. In the modern era, almost every application connects to or integrates with some other database or application in some manner. There are many methods for exchanging data through some form of web service; SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), REST (Representational State Transfer), and GraphQL are just three common ways. In this chapter, we will discuss one form of integration: the REST API. Specifically, we will discuss third-party REST APIs, what a third-party API is, how to interact with it, and understand the crucial artifacts in Studio Pro that will get you up and connected in no time. We will briefly take a look at how to publish your own REST API from Studio Pro and discuss some of the artifacts important for making that happen. We will also discuss the importance of security and authentication as well as a few native ways provided by Mendix to ensure...
