The article highlights Huawei’s recruitment of a young ICPC champion, discusses corporate policies at Tencent and Panasonic, and introduces Chrome 97’s new WebTransport API for secure, low‑latency web communication.
magic-api is a Java‑based rapid API development framework that lets developers create HTTP interfaces through a UI without writing Controllers, Services, DAOs, or XML, offering extensive database support, dynamic scripting, Swagger generation, and easy Spring Boot integration.
The article examines the recent Xi'an health‑code system failure, highlighting that the crash stemmed from backend design flaws such as serving all static assets without a CDN, excessive bandwidth demand exceeding 125 Gbps, and inefficient QR‑code API handling.
This article explains why third‑party payment platforms like Alipay are used, describes Alipay's payment flow, outlines the configuration steps to obtain APPID and keys, and provides a complete Python implementation for integrating Alipay into backend services.
This article explains why and how to separate front‑end and back‑end responsibilities, introduces the SPA‑based architecture, outlines development processes, and provides a detailed API specification (including request/response formats, pagination, and special field rules) to improve collaboration and reduce integration effort.
This article explains how to manage Tencent Cloud Elasticsearch clusters by using key APIs to check health status, monitor pending tasks, retrieve metadata, view statistics, adjust shard allocation, modify cluster settings, and control tasks, providing practical command examples and detailed explanations for effective operations.
This guide explains how Sentry SDKs should generate, update, and send session‑update events—including payload formats, attribute immutability rules, aggregation strategies, and error handling—to provide reliable release‑health monitoring for both short‑lived request‑mode sessions and long‑running user‑mode sessions.
This article compares four major API architectural styles—RPC, SOAP, REST, and GraphQL—detailing their mechanisms, strengths, weaknesses, and typical use cases, and provides guidance on selecting the most suitable style for a given project.
This guide walks developers through installing Apifox, importing API specifications, designing and debugging endpoints, configuring environments, creating custom scripts, and generating realistic mock data, demonstrating how the all‑in‑one platform can replace Postman, Swagger, JMeter and other tools for comprehensive API documentation, testing, and automation.
This tutorial explains how to use the WeChat material management API, Redis caching, and Node.js middleware to obtain access tokens, upload and replace images, inline CSS, and finally create draft articles for automatic publishing on a WeChat public account.
magic-api is a Java-based rapid API development framework that lets developers create HTTP APIs without writing Controllers, Services, DAOs, or XML, offering features like multi-database support, dynamic scripting, Swagger docs, and easy Maven integration, as demonstrated in the quick‑start guide.
The article examines why certain companies mandate POST for every API endpoint, comparing GET and POST differences such as security, payload size, data types, speed, intended usage, and caching, and concludes that POST suits large data submissions while GET is better for simple queries and static resources.
This guide explains what Shodan is, why internet‑connected devices are vulnerable, and provides step‑by‑step instructions—including environment setup, API key registration, basic Python searches, and advanced facet queries—to safely explore and analyze exposed devices.
Learn step‑by‑step how to fetch Baidu Index search volume data for any keyword using Python: discover the API endpoints, decrypt the encrypted response with a custom function, and wrap the process into reusable code without relying on UI automation tools.
This article demonstrates a simpler method to obtain water‑marked‑free Douyin video URLs by inspecting network requests, extracting hidden links, and using a Python script with the jsonpath library to download videos directly, highlighting advantages and remaining limitations.
This article introduces Spring's RestTemplate as a simple and convenient HTTP client, compares it with java.net.URLConnection, shows how to add the required dependency, configure the bean, and demonstrates GET and POST request usage with complete code samples and explanations.
This article explains how to upgrade to Alipay's new transfer API, configure certificates, add the required Maven dependency, and implement Spring beans and utility classes in Java to securely perform transfers using the latest SDK version.
This article introduces LevelDB, a Google‑built key/value store, and demonstrates how to integrate it in Java and Go projects by showing dependency setup, basic operations such as opening, putting, getting, deleting, iterating, and closing the database, and explains the typical use cases and file layout.
This tutorial shows how to quickly add GraphQL support to a Spring Boot web project by creating a Maven project, adding custom dependencies, defining schema files, implementing resolvers and a controller, and testing query and mutation endpoints, all without using the official graphql‑java‑tools starter.
This article explains how to use APIPOST to send HTTP requests, configure header, query, and body parameters, switch between form-data, x-www-form-urlencoded, and raw modes, view responses, and efficiently import parameter descriptions, providing a practical guide for backend developers.
The Python 3.10.0 reference documentation provides a comprehensive guide covering installation, API reference, common questions, standard library details, language reference, and beginner tutorials, offering essential resources for newcomers and experienced developers alike, with downloadable PDFs and QR codes for easy access.
This article reviews eight Python frameworks—Django REST, Flask‑Restful, Falcon, Connexion, FastAPI, Hug, Eve, and Cornice—explaining their features, ideal project sizes, and how they simplify and accelerate the creation of robust APIs.
This article provides a detailed tutorial on Spring's RestTemplate class, covering its overview, setup, and extensive examples of GET, POST, file download, header handling, dynamic URL parameters, and integration with HttpClient and OkHttp, along with complete code snippets and best‑practice recommendations for backend Java development.
This tutorial shows how to quickly set up GraphQL in a Spring Boot web project by creating the project, adding Maven dependencies, defining schema files, implementing providers and resolvers, exposing a GraphQL endpoint, and testing query and mutation operations.
This article walks through creating a Spring Boot project, adding GraphQL dependencies, defining schema files, implementing resolvers and a controller, and testing queries and mutations, providing a quick and flexible way to integrate GraphQL into a Java backend.
This tutorial demonstrates how to use Python's requests library to programmatically log into Weibo, publish a status update, and automatically like posts by handling cookies, sessions, and the required st token, complete with full code examples.
This article walks through the design and implementation of a Java open‑platform SDK, covering a lightweight HTTP client, flexible serialization adapters for JSON and XML, and a simple API client, while sharing practical code examples and best‑practice tips for building maintainable backend integrations.
This article walks through creating a reusable Go HTTP client wrapper, demonstrates its use in a test script, shows console output, and integrates a mock server with Moco to enable quick API testing while applying a learning‑by‑doing approach.
This article introduces Chrome's built‑in Performance panel, explains how to use the W3C Performance API for custom metric collection, compares third‑party auditing tools, and demonstrates a real‑world optimization case to help front‑end developers diagnose and improve page load speed.
This article explains how QingStor object storage uses SSL and server‑side AES256 encryption, details the client‑side tagging process, walks through the full encrypt‑and‑decrypt workflow, and provides practical API request and response examples for secure data handling.
The article explains how to discover the Multiavatar service, use browser developer tools to modify the MD5 hash in the URL to obtain different avatars, and provides a concise PHP function that returns a random avatar URL based on an email address.
This guide explains how to use Python, pandas, and requests to fetch minute‑by‑minute K‑line data for Chinese stocks from Eastmoney's API, generate the required secid, handle different market codes, and continuously save the data until market close.
This tutorial explains how to locate Bilibili video danmaku (bullet‑comment) APIs, extract the CID, and use Python libraries such as requests, BeautifulSoup, and pandas to download, clean, and save the comment data to CSV files, with an optional API‑based shortcut.
This article demonstrates how to serialize bank API parameters into a fixed‑length string using Java annotations and reflection, covering the initial naïve implementation, its drawbacks, and a refactored solution that centralizes formatting, signing, and request logic for maintainable backend code.
This article provides a step‑by‑step guide for implementing a Java‑based SMS verification system, covering random code generation, API request construction, session handling, and includes full Java code for utility classes, configuration, and sending the verification message via a third‑party service.
This tutorial shows how to capture the network packets of the Super Course Table Android app, log in by sending the required headers and encrypted credentials, and continuously fetch user‑generated topics using Python's urllib2 and JSON parsing, enabling infinite scrolling data extraction.
This article provides a Python tutorial that explains how to generate Eastmoney‑specific security IDs, request minute‑level K‑line data for a given stock code via the Eastmoney API, process the response into a pandas DataFrame, and continuously fetch and save data until market close.
Uni API provides a framework‑agnostic, TypeScript‑typed solution that unifies the divergent APIs of major mini‑app containers and the web, allowing developers to write a single codebase that runs across WeChat, Alipay, ByteDance, Kuaishou, and browsers with minimal overhead.
This article examines four major API architectural styles—RPC, SOAP, REST, and GraphQL—detailing their mechanisms, strengths, weaknesses, and typical use cases, and provides guidance on selecting the most suitable style for a given project based on technical and business constraints.
KubeSphere builds a cloud‑native container management system atop Kubernetes, offering multi‑cloud, multi‑cluster management, declarative APIs, and RBAC‑based permission control through its core components ks‑console, ks‑apiserver, and ks‑controller‑manager, while leveraging CustomResources, controllers, and Go‑restful for extensible, secure operations.
This tutorial walks through building HTTP interface tests with the FunTester framework in Java, covering request types (GET, POST), headers, cookies, response parsing, JSON handling, and resource cleanup, and provides code examples for each step.
Uni API provides a framework‑agnostic, bilingual, TypeScript‑supported solution that unifies the fragmented APIs of major mini‑program containers and the web, allowing developers to write code once and run it across multiple platforms while reducing bundle size and simplifying maintenance.
This tutorial walks through registering a WeChat public account, configuring developer information and JS security domains, creating a PHP class to obtain the JS‑API signature, setting up PHP file configuration, and embedding the required JavaScript/HTML to enable custom share titles, descriptions, links, and images on WeChat.
This article presents a comprehensive visual reference of all standard HTTP status codes, from informational 1xx responses to server error 5xx codes, explaining each code's meaning and typical use cases for developers working with web APIs and browsers.
This article explains the purpose of Java's Optional, demonstrates how to use it correctly with practical code examples, highlights common misuses such as unnecessary isPresent checks and Optional parameters, and provides a concise guide to the most effective Optional APIs for safer null handling.
This article explains the difference between FastJSON's getInteger and getIntValue methods, analyzes a common validation bug in a custom isRight() implementation, and provides corrected code examples and optional global switches for robust response handling in Java backend projects.
This article examines four major API architectural styles—RPC, SOAP, REST, and GraphQL—explaining how each works, outlining their advantages and disadvantages, and providing guidance on selecting the most suitable style for different project requirements.
This guide explains how to use the JavaScript Fetch API to retrieve and send JSON data, covering basic GET requests, parsing responses, configuring request options, handling POST submissions with appropriate headers, and using polyfills for unsupported browsers.
Magic-API is a Java-based rapid development framework that enables developers to create HTTP API interfaces without writing traditional controller, service, DAO, or XML code, offering extensive features, quick-start Maven integration, configurable properties, and a visual UI for managing endpoints.
This guide explains how to replace the old Alipay transfer interface with the new certificate‑based alipay.fund.trans.uni.transfer API, upgrade the SDK, configure certificates, add Maven dependencies, and implement Spring‑Boot beans and utility classes for secure payment and transfer operations.
Spring GraphQL has officially left the experimental stage to become a top‑level Spring project, with a milestone release planned, and the article explains its collaboration with GraphQL Java, the goals of the integration, a brief overview of GraphQL versus REST, and upcoming conference talks.
This article walks through creating a Python desktop demo that uses Youdao's OCR translation API to batch‑process cosmetic product label images, covering API credential setup, request parameters, signature generation, core code snippets, and a summary of the translation results.
This article analyzes various token‑based authentication methods across multiple client scenarios, categorizes tokens into password, session, and API types, compares their natural and controllable attributes, outlines hierarchical relationships, and offers design guidelines to improve security, privacy, and usability in multi‑client systems.
This guide explains how to install the iszsw/mock library via Composer, add test controllers with annotation routing and validation, configure static resources, generate nested mock data using MockPack, and produce API documentation, providing complete code examples for PHP backend projects.
This article explains the concept of API idempotency, why it is needed for reliable retries, and presents practical designs using global unique identifiers such as UUID and Snowflake, including their advantages, drawbacks, and implementation considerations for backend services.
The article examines the shortcomings of REST APIs—such as lack of standards, cumbersome pagination, fragile documentation, and heavy client‑server coordination—and explains how GraphQL’s typed schema, automatic validation, precise field selection, and strong tooling provide a more efficient and maintainable alternative for modern web and mobile applications.
The article proposes a unified cross‑platform front‑end API specification and SDK that abstracts differences among WebView, mini‑programs, React Native, Flutter, and other containers, consolidating 55+ APIs for 30+ apps, reducing duplicated code, maintenance, and testing while enabling extensible, reusable functionality across Alibaba’s ecosystem.
This article explains microservices architecture, contrasting it with monolithic systems, outlines the problems solved by microservices, lists their advantages and disadvantages, presents a practical API example with code, and discusses splitting strategies, design principles, and common migration patterns.
This article explains the shortcomings of the legacy java.util.Date and Calendar classes, outlines the motivations behind creating a new date‑time API, and introduces Java 8's JSR‑310 solution with its comprehensive class hierarchy, range handling, chronology support, and fluent method design.
Creating a robust API involves more than just making it work; developers must address four critical non‑functional aspects—security (HTTPS, CORS, JWT authentication, scopes), comprehensive documentation, thorough validation, and systematic testing—to ensure reliability, safety, and maintainability in production environments.
This article introduces the FunTester distributed testing framework, explains its single‑node HTTP API, provides complete Java, generic Java, and Groovy code examples, details request parameters, response structure, and the underlying PerformanceResultBean class for analyzing test results.
This article explains the design, configuration, and usage of the JD Logistics gateway frontend plugin built on Axios, detailing how it enables zero‑cost integration across multiple environments and account types while providing extensible request/response handling and customizable login redirects.
This tutorial walks you through creating an interactive Excel weather dashboard using Python's xlwings and requests libraries, covering API selection, data retrieval, code integration, Excel macro setup, UI design, and dynamic updates for multiple Chinese cities.
This article explores how to build a comprehensive API development platform that covers the entire API lifecycle—from lightweight gateway handling and object‑driven modeling to automatic contract generation, rule processing, service composition, source‑code export, and microservice packaging—providing practical guidance for backend engineers.
This article details Ant Group's evolution from monolithic applications to microservices and its large‑scale adoption of Service Mesh, describing the motivations, challenges, architecture, multi‑mesh capabilities, and the design of a cloud‑native application runtime built on MOSN to decouple applications from infrastructure.
magic-api is a Java-based rapid API development framework that eliminates the need for traditional Controllers, Services, DAOs, and XML files by providing a UI for defining endpoints, supporting Spring Boot integration, CRUD operations, validation, transactions, result mapping, and Swagger integration, with detailed configuration examples.
This article explains why the StringJoiner class was introduced as a more flexible alternative to StringBuilder, details its internal fields, constructors, and core methods such as add, merge, toString, length, and setEmptyValue, and demonstrates their behavior with concrete Java code examples.
This article explains the limitations of traditional REST APIs, introduces GraphQL as a more flexible and efficient alternative, details its core concepts, execution model, schema design, type system, and provides guidance on server and client implementations, popular services, and tooling.
This article explains the limitations of traditional RESTful APIs, introduces GraphQL as a flexible query language, details its core concepts such as operation types, object and scalar types, and schema definition, and provides a complete Python Flask example with code analysis, execution steps, and a discussion of its advantages and drawbacks.
This article explains the limitations of traditional RESTful APIs, introduces GraphQL's core concepts and operation types, provides a step‑by‑step Flask and Graphene implementation for querying and mutating book data, and discusses the practical pros and cons of adopting GraphQL in real‑world projects.
The article explains how to manage the entire API lifecycle—from design, development, testing, and deployment to monitoring and governance—by separating responsibilities into an API development platform, a lightweight gateway, a monitoring layer, and a control portal, while emphasizing object‑driven modeling, automatic contract generation, rule processing, service composition, and microservice packaging.
This tutorial explains how to replace traditional REST APIs with GraphQL by building a Spring Boot application, defining Java entities, writing GraphQL schema, implementing query resolvers, configuring the endpoint, and testing queries using tools like Altair.
This article explains how to manage the complete API lifecycle by using an API development platform for object‑driven modeling, automatic contract generation, integration with API gateways, rule processing, service composition, source‑code export, and microservice deployment, providing a comprehensive guide for modern backend development.
This article explains the structure and meaning of HTTP status codes, detailing each of the five response classes (1xx informational, 2xx success, 3xx redirection, 4xx client error, 5xx server error) and providing concise descriptions for the most common codes within each class.
This article explains why NullPointerExceptions occur in Java, introduces the Optional API introduced in Java 8, details its core methods with source code examples, and demonstrates practical usage patterns that replace verbose null‑checks with concise, expressive functional code.
This article introduces the GoPUP library, which provides over a hundred free data interfaces—including social media indexes, macro‑economic figures, company information, and epidemic statistics—accessible with simple Python code, making data analysis faster and easier.
This article explains how concise yet valuable project documentation—README, architecture, and API docs—helps developers onboard quickly, understand system design, and maintain long‑term project health, while offering practical content guidelines and real‑world examples.
This article introduces Java 8's new date‑time API, explains its immutable and thread‑safe design, lists the key classes such as Instant, LocalDate, LocalTime, ZonedDateTime, and provides step‑by‑step code examples for obtaining current dates, manipulating specific dates, handling time zones, calculating intervals, and formatting dates.
This article presents a Python script that shows how to programmatically send text, markdown, and image‑text (news) messages through an Enterprise WeChat robot, enabling automated test report notifications that incorporate phone numbers and group mentions.
This article explains the origins and limitations of REST APIs, introduces GraphQL as a flexible alternative, describes its core concepts such as schema, types, and modifiers, and outlines various server‑side and client‑side implementations, tools, and deployment architectures for modern backend development.
This guide shows how to use Python to post text, markdown, and image‑text (news) messages to a WeChat Work webhook, covering required headers, payload structures, and example code for each message type.
The article explains how microservice APIs serve as contracts, the impact of changing those contracts, and practical versioning approaches—including URL or header versioning, mediator patterns, and hypermedia—to ensure backward compatibility and smooth evolution of services.
This article introduces the Airtest mobile automation IDE, explains its cross‑platform and platform‑specific APIs, and provides detailed code examples for device initialization, control, app management, screen actions, and assertions, enabling developers to automate mobile testing efficiently.
This article explains the concept of API idempotency, presents common scenarios that cause duplicate data, and details eight practical solutions—including pre‑select before insert, pessimistic and optimistic locking, unique indexes, anti‑duplicate tables, state‑machine checks, distributed locks, and token‑based approaches—along with their implementation steps and caveats.
This article walks through the step‑by‑step reverse‑engineering process used to identify and replicate the MD5‑based sign generation in a web API request, detailing parameter extraction, code inspection, and cookie handling to recreate the required authentication logic.
This article explains how to extract song information from KuGou by inspecting network requests, simplifying URLs, generating required MD5 signatures, constructing authenticated API calls, and using Python to download the resulting audio files to a local directory.
This article analyzes token‑based identity authentication in multi‑client information systems, classifies various token types, compares their natural and controllable attributes, and proposes a hierarchical token architecture that balances security, usability, and lifecycle management across web, mobile, and API scenarios.
The decade‑long Google‑Oracle Java API lawsuit, its timeline of claims, court rulings, and the Supreme Court’s final fair‑use decision, sparked intense debate among developers about copyright, innovation, and the future of software development.
The Supreme Court ruled APIs uncopyrightable, letting Google use Java code in Android, while LG exits the smartphone market, a massive Facebook data leak surfaces, UK developer jobs surge amid skill shortages, and Python 3.9.4 patches critical security flaws.
This article provides a comprehensive, step‑by‑step analysis of Docker's client‑server architecture, the Docker Engine API for image building, the internal workings of the Docker CLI, the differences between the legacy builder and BuildKit, and how the dockerd daemon processes build requests, complete with code excerpts and diagrams.
This guide shows Java developers how to use the Cloudmersive API to create both unencrypted and password‑protected ZIP archives, covering Maven setup, API key configuration, and complete code examples for handling up to ten files with optional AES‑256 encryption.
This article explains how to implement API request frequency control in PHP using Redis, detailing a function that tracks per‑user request counts within a configurable time window, removes outdated entries, and returns appropriate responses when the limit is exceeded.
This article details the background, architecture, step‑by‑step troubleshooting, analysis of network and server queues, and the final configuration changes that resolved the intermittent slow response times of the Octavia load‑balancer API in an OpenStack environment.
This article introduces Java 8's modern date‑time API, explains why the old java.util.Date and SimpleDateFormat are problematic, and provides a series of concise, runnable examples that demonstrate how to obtain the current date, extract year/month/day, work with specific dates, compare dates, handle time zones, calculate periods, format and parse strings, and more.
Learn how to quickly set up a GraphQL API using Netflix's open‑source DGS framework in a Spring Boot project, covering Maven dependencies, schema definition, data fetcher implementation, UI debugging with GraphiQL, and example curl and Java test calls.
The article explains how the IETF's RFC 7807 standardizes HTTP API error responses by defining a common problem‑details format, describing its fields, JSON/XML examples, benefits for clients and servers, and practical steps for adopting it across various programming ecosystems.
This article explains how to design a unified JSON response structure for backend APIs, define systematic status codes and messages, and implement a global @ResponseResult annotation with interceptors and ResponseBodyAdvice to automatically wrap controller results in a clean, maintainable way.
This guide explains the new WeChat service account subscription message workflow, covering terminology, user subscription steps via JSSDK, handling callback XML, and sending notifications through the official API, while also addressing common integration challenges.
The article explains what APIs are, distinguishes internal, public, and vendor APIs, explores how API‑first companies like Stripe, Shopify, and Twilio build strategic advantages through focus, scale, network effects, and low switching costs, and discusses the benefits and challenges of this business model.
This article explains the necessity of RESTful API versioning and demonstrates four practical versioning techniques—URI, request‑parameter, custom header, and media‑type—using a Spring Boot example with code snippets and discusses factors for choosing the appropriate approach.
