How do you handle breaking API changes?

There are 3 main approaches to handle breaking changes:

1. API Versioning.
2. Version as request parameter or header.
3. Feature Toggle Parameters.

How do I handle API versions?

There are four common ways to version a REST API.

1. Versioning through URI Path.
2. Versioning through query parameters.
3. Versioning through custom headers.
4. Versioning through content negotiation.
5. Summary.

How does API impact mobile apps?

An API facilitates communications between your mobile app and third-party interfaces/devices, thus improving speed, creating a better user experience (UX) and boosting user retention. This is just one way the wrong API can impact your app’s user interface (UI) and overall user experience (UX).

How do you communicate with breaking changes?

Social Media. One excellent modern method of communication is through the use of social media. Sending out alerts for changes, and even using social media to respond to user needs, complaints, and questions about changes can be very effective.

Why API versioning is required?

Versioning helps us to iterate faster when the needed changes are identified in the APIs. Change in an API is inevitable as our knowledge and experience of a system improve. Managing the impact of this change can be quite a challenge when it threatens to break existing client integration.

What is considered a breaking change API?

We define a breaking change as any change to an API that could potentially cause failures in the applications that consume that API. If a change could cause API calls to fail or cause API calls to return different results than before the change, then we consider it a breaking change.

When should I change my API version?

APIs only need to be up-versioned when a breaking change is made.

1. a change in the format of the response data for one or more calls.
2. a change in the request or response type (i.e. changing an integer to a float)
3. removing any part of the API.

What is breaking change API?

Which of the following is an example of a breaking change to an API?

Common examples of breaking changes include: Deleting a resource or method. Deleting a response field. Modifying a resource or method URI.