Build an API - Prework

Pre-work for Build an API

In our MVC applications, we used controller actions to help build the body of our responses. The body in MVC reponses include HTML documents - this is what the user sees!

As we saw in our Intro to API lesson we saw that some web application responses include non-html data.

Most APIs return JSON response content. Review the W3 school’s post on JSON and answer the following questions in your notebook. We will revisit these questions in our upcoming lesson!

• What are the 4 JSON syntax rules?
• In what languages can JSON data be written?
• What do square brackets [] indicate?
• What do curly braces {} indicate?