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Compliance to OGC Web API Guidelines

Chris Little edited this page Jun 11, 2024 · 3 revisions

OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval (version-number)

To comply with Policy Directive 50, the following should be completed.

See an example in the OGC API - Common - Part 1: Core Standard.

All versions and parts of the Standard conform to the OGC Web API guidelines. See the completed checklists

# Principle Discussion
1 Don’t reinvent
2 Keep it simple and intuitive
3 Use well-known resource types
4 Construct consistent URIs
5 Use HTTP methods consistent with RFC 7231
6 Put selection criteria behind the ‘?’
7 Error handling and use of HTTP status codes
8 Use explicit list of HTTP status codes
9 Use of HTTP header
10 Allow flexible content negotiation
11 Pagination
12 Processing resources
13 Support metadata
14 Consider your security needs
15 API description
16 Use well-known identifiers
17 Use explicit relations
18 Support W3C cross-origin resource sharing
19 Resource encodings
20 Good APIs are testable from the beginning
21 Specify whether operations are safe and/or idempotent
22 Make resources discoverable
23 Make default behavior explicit
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