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Salvador D. answered on September 25, 2022 Popularity 1/10 Helpfulness 1/10

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You need to separate the idea of an API from communication between machines
or even between processes.

An API is simply a defined way of calling/executing code that lives outside of
the code that you are working on. This could be doing things locally within
your app like using the Gson or Jackson classes in Java to work with JSON
formatted data, generating menus in a C++ application using the Qt or GTK+ or
Win32 libraries, etc. or perhaps interprocess communication and requests, like
accessing kernel data/functions in utilities like top or iptables, or it could
be between machine communications to get a remote machine to Do Things.

Then you have the between machine or between process communication channels.
This may be two machines talking back and forth doing request/reply things via
the HTTP(s) protocol(s) or even direct socket communication, or it could be
local machine interprocess communications.

When you talk about an API being a RESTful API, or being a SOAP API,
that starts combining all of this and more, defining a "pattern" of how an API
operates. For example, a true RESTful API uses HTTP actions (GET, POST, PUT,
DELETE) and status codes (200 OK, 204 OK received and processed but no reply
data being sent, 404 resource not found, 400 malformed request, etc) to convey
meaning. Quite often the web based APIs we use are more REST-like than REST-ful.
Similar definitions exist for SOAP based APIs, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP#Protocol_concepts

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