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diff --git a/guides/source/api_app.md b/guides/source/api_app.md index f373d313cc..85367c50e7 100644 --- a/guides/source/api_app.md +++ b/guides/source/api_app.md @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ -**DO NOT READ THIS FILE ON GITHUB, GUIDES ARE PUBLISHED ON http://guides.rubyonrails.org.** - +**DO NOT READ THIS FILE ON GITHUB, GUIDES ARE PUBLISHED ON https://guides.rubyonrails.org.** Using Rails for API-only Applications ===================================== @@ -18,14 +17,14 @@ What is an API Application? Traditionally, when people said that they used Rails as an "API", they meant providing a programmatically accessible API alongside their web application. -For example, GitHub provides [an API](http://developer.github.com) that you +For example, GitHub provides [an API](https://developer.github.com) that you can use from your own custom clients. With the advent of client-side frameworks, more developers are using Rails to build a back-end that is shared between their web application and other native applications. -For example, Twitter uses its [public API](https://dev.twitter.com) in its web +For example, Twitter uses its [public API](https://developer.twitter.com/) in its web application, which is built as a static site that consumes JSON resources. Instead of using Rails to generate HTML that communicates with the server @@ -66,9 +65,9 @@ Handled at the middleware layer: about the request environment, database queries, and basic performance information. - Security: Rails detects and thwarts [IP spoofing - attacks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address_spoofing) and handles + attacks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address_spoofing) and handles cryptographic signatures in a [timing - attack](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing_attack) aware way. Don't know what + attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing_attack) aware way. Don't know what an IP spoofing attack or a timing attack is? Exactly. - Parameter Parsing: Want to specify your parameters as JSON instead of as a URL-encoded String? No problem. Rails will decode the JSON for you and make @@ -94,12 +93,12 @@ Handled at the Action Pack layer: means not having to spend time thinking about how to model your API in terms of HTTP. - URL Generation: The flip side of routing is URL generation. A good API based - on HTTP includes URLs (see [the GitHub Gist API](http://developer.github.com/v3/gists/) + on HTTP includes URLs (see [the GitHub Gist API](https://developer.github.com/v3/gists/) for an example). - Header and Redirection Responses: `head :no_content` and `redirect_to user_url(current_user)` come in handy. Sure, you could manually add the response headers, but why? -- Caching: Rails provides page, action and fragment caching. Fragment caching +- Caching: Rails provides page, action, and fragment caching. Fragment caching is especially helpful when building up a nested JSON object. - Basic, Digest, and Token Authentication: Rails comes with out-of-the-box support for three kinds of HTTP authentication. @@ -107,7 +106,7 @@ Handled at the Action Pack layer: handlers for a variety of events, such as action processing, sending a file or data, redirection, and database queries. The payload of each event comes with relevant information (for the action processing event, the payload includes - the controller, action, parameters, request format, request method and the + the controller, action, parameters, request format, request method, and the request's full path). - Generators: It is often handy to generate a resource and get your model, controller, test stubs, and routes created for you in a single command for @@ -149,7 +148,7 @@ This will do three main things for you: `ActionController::Base`. As with middleware, this will leave out any Action Controller modules that provide functionalities primarily used by browser applications. -- Configure the generators to skip generating views, helpers and assets when +- Configure the generators to skip generating views, helpers, and assets when you generate a new resource. ### Changing an existing application @@ -206,10 +205,10 @@ An API application comes with the following middleware by default: - `ActiveSupport::Cache::Strategy::LocalCache::Middleware` - `Rack::Runtime` - `ActionDispatch::RequestId` +- `ActionDispatch::RemoteIp` - `Rails::Rack::Logger` - `ActionDispatch::ShowExceptions` - `ActionDispatch::DebugExceptions` -- `ActionDispatch::RemoteIp` - `ActionDispatch::Reloader` - `ActionDispatch::Callbacks` - `ActiveRecord::Migration::CheckPending` @@ -360,7 +359,7 @@ middleware set, you can remove it with: config.middleware.delete ::Rack::Sendfile ``` -Keep in mind that removing these middleware will remove support for certain +Keep in mind that removing these middlewares will remove support for certain features in Action Controller. Choosing Controller Modules @@ -376,7 +375,6 @@ controller modules by default: - `ActionController::ConditionalGet`: Support for `stale?`. - `ActionController::BasicImplicitRender`: Makes sure to return an empty response, if there isn't an explicit one. - `ActionController::StrongParameters`: Support for parameters white-listing in combination with Active Model mass assignment. -- `ActionController::ForceSSL`: Support for `force_ssl`. - `ActionController::DataStreaming`: Support for `send_file` and `send_data`. - `AbstractController::Callbacks`: Support for `before_action` and similar helpers. @@ -385,21 +383,22 @@ controller modules by default: hooks defined by Action Controller (see [the instrumentation guide](active_support_instrumentation.html#action-controller) for more information regarding this). -- `ActionController::ParamsWrapper`: Wraps the parameters hash into a nested hash, +- `ActionController::ParamsWrapper`: Wraps the parameters hash into a nested hash, so that you don't have to specify root elements sending POST requests for instance. +- `ActionController::Head`: Support for returning a response with no content, only headers Other plugins may add additional modules. You can get a list of all modules included into `ActionController::API` in the rails console: ```bash -$ bin/rails c +$ rails c >> ActionController::API.ancestors - ActionController::Metal.ancestors -=> [ActionController::API, - ActiveRecord::Railties::ControllerRuntime, - ActionDispatch::Routing::RouteSet::MountedHelpers, - ActionController::ParamsWrapper, - ... , - AbstractController::Rendering, +=> [ActionController::API, + ActiveRecord::Railties::ControllerRuntime, + ActionDispatch::Routing::RouteSet::MountedHelpers, + ActionController::ParamsWrapper, + ... , + AbstractController::Rendering, ActionView::ViewPaths] ``` @@ -413,8 +412,10 @@ Some common modules you might want to add: - `AbstractController::Translation`: Support for the `l` and `t` localization and translation methods. -- `ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic` (or `Digest` or `Token`): Support - for basic, digest or token HTTP authentication. +- Support for basic, digest, or token HTTP authentication: + * `ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic::ControllerMethods`, + * `ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Digest::ControllerMethods`, + * `ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Token::ControllerMethods` - `ActionView::Layouts`: Support for layouts when rendering. - `ActionController::MimeResponds`: Support for `respond_to`. - `ActionController::Cookies`: Support for `cookies`, which includes |