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Chapter: Days 55-57: Structured API clients with uplink
Lecture: Introducing uplink
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Recall way back
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when we worked on the search API,
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consuming the search API,
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and we were using requests to interact with HTTP services.
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That worked pretty well,
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but it turns out if you're working with complex APIs,
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and they're very structured,
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they want you to do things like pass certain headers,
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some things go into query parameters,
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others go into a JSON body,
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and it's this sort of rich, known, fixed API,
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you may well be better off using this thing called Uplink.
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And that's what we're going to focus on now.
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Instead of consuming HTTP services in an ad hoc fashion,
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we're going to use the Uplink library to create
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very structured and predictable APIs.
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So once you implement it,
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you kind of forget that it's there,
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and you just treat it like another part of Python.
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So, Uplink is a really great API for building
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what here they describe as declarative http clients.
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So instead of implementing all the details,
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you just say,
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"I want to do a get request against this URL
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with these variables and parameters,
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and Uplink, make that happen.
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Make this all work for us."
