IBM Cloud API Handbook

IBM's conventions, design patterns, and best practices for cloud APIs.

• 301, 302, 303, and 307 response bodies
• 303 and 307 temporary redirects
• 500 and 503 errors
• Abbreviations
• Accuracy and consistency
• Additional resources
• Additional response fields
• Additional response fields
• Advanced querying
• Ambiguous JSON data
• API definition management
• Array
• Request formats
• Response format
• Attack vector analysis
• Authentication
• Authentication headers
• Authorization
• Backward-compatible changes
• Backward-incompatible changes
• Base64-encoded data
• Request formats
• Response format
• Basic filtering
• Best practices
• A resource's bindings to multiple other resources
• Boolean
• Request formats
• Query parameters
• Request bodies