Architecture - 2.2 Magento APIs and Third-Party Integration

Question 1

What are the two types of APIs?

Answer 1

REST, Representational State Transfer. Is URL and HTTP code based

SOAP, Simple Object Access Protocol. Is XML based

Question 2

Methods of API authentication?

Answer 2

• http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/get-started/bk-getstarted-api.html
• OAuth 1.0a (why not 2?)
• Mobile applications can use tokens
• Administrators and customers can use login credentials (which are converted into a token)

API users
• These are the same as a user if you are using tokenbased authentication.

Question 3

Differences between Magento 1 and Magento 2 integration options.

Answer 3

Magento 2 is much more streamlined. With Magento 1, you worked with a unique set of users for the API. There were also unique permissions with Magento 1 that are now no longer apart of 2.

Question 4

Magento Open Source APIs?

Answer 4

• Analytics
• AsynchronousOperations
• Backend
• Bundle
• Catalog
• CatalogInventory
• Checkout
• CheckoutAgreements
• Cms
• ConfigurableProduct
• Customer
• Directory
• Downloadable
• Eav
• GiftMessage
• Integration
• InventoryApi
• InventoryCatalogApi
• InventoryDistanceBasedSourceSelectionApi
• InventoryLowQuantityNotificationApi
• InventorySalesApi
• InventorySourceSelectionApi
• Quote
• Sales
• SalesRule
• Search
• Store
• Tax

Question 5

Magento Commerce APIs

Answer 5

All of open source and the following:
• CustomerBalance
• GiftCardAccount
• GiftWrapping
• Reward
• RMA
• Worldpay