Tag: HTTP Verbs

DEVASC Quick Notes – Northbound vs Southbound API, Async vs Sync, REST API Basics, HTTP and CRUD Verbs, SOAP API, RPC reviewed!

Posted on by Loopy

Kaboom - And then there was APIs! Lets get right into it and get this DEVASC passed!!! 🙂 Northbound vs Southbound APIs, Synchronous vs Asynchronous, Authentication types! API (Application Programming Interfaces) allow Applications to talk to software to perform various tasks (configure / read / delete resources), the most common of these for DevNet exam … Continue reading DEVASC Quick Notes – Northbound vs Southbound API, Async vs Sync, REST API Basics, HTTP and CRUD Verbs, SOAP API, RPC reviewed! →

ENAUTO – RESTful APIs and RESTCONF completely reviewed, some much needed comparison to NETCONF, and configs!

Posted on by Loopy

RESTCONF is the cousin of NETCONF which both use YANG Data Modeling to talk, although while I know NETCONF prefers XML as its choice of encoding data to communicate and SSHv2 via TCP Port 830 to communicate, I assume that is where we will see some differences between RESTCONF and NETCONF protocols. With that lets … Continue reading ENAUTO – RESTful APIs and RESTCONF completely reviewed, some much needed comparison to NETCONF, and configs! →

ENAUTO – In Depth API Review, REST API discussed, HTTP / CRUD review, and other details on all other things API!

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As will be discussed below in the REST API section, this pretty well represents the nature of REST API being a "Northbound" API, with Apps speaking to the Controller using it. However to begin with I want to completely re-iterate here what I've written in previous articles as you cannot practice typing / knowing this … Continue reading ENAUTO – In Depth API Review, REST API discussed, HTTP / CRUD review, and other details on all other things API! →