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References

This section collects links to documents to which we refer, and base our guidelines on.

OpenAPI Specification

• OpenAPI Specification

Publications, specifications and standards

• RFC 3339: Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps

• RFC 5988: Web Linking

• RFC 7159: The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format

• RFC 7230: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing

• RFC 7231: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content

• RFC 7807: Problem Details for HTTP APIs

• ISO 8601: Date and time format

• ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: Two letter country codes

• ISO 639-1: Two letter language codes

• ISO 4217: Currency codes

• BCP 47: Tags for Identifying Languages

Dissertations

• Roy Thomas Fielding - Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-Based Software Architectures. This is the text which defines what REST is.

Books

• REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture

• Build APIs You Won’t Hate

• InfoQ eBook - Web APIs: From Start to Finish

Blogs

• Lessons-learned blog: Thoughts on RESTful API Design