Terminology

  • Client
    Program capable of sending a valid API request and processing an API response
  • Request
    Request from the client to the API server
  • Response
    Response of the API server to the client
  • Element
    Parameters of a JSON object, which in turn is a JSON object and contains further data there
  • Attribute
    Regular JSON parameter in a JSON object
  • Action
    Atomic request to be processed by the API server
  • User Credentials
    Authentication information consisting of several parts (customer, username, password)