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API Design Guidelines

An API is essentially an interface used by programmers to support communication between systems. Guidelines are useful because the REST architectural style allows for a great deal of flexibility in design. The guidelines that follow are designed to make Ed-Fi REST API implementations intuitive and easy to use for programmers.

This section covers the following topics in detail: