APIs Reference

API interaction patterns for infrastructure automation. curl, httpx, authentication flows, error handling, and protocol-specific reference.

Topics

Topic	Description
REST	HTTP methods, status codes, headers, query parameters, HATEOAS
Authentication	Basic, Bearer, OAuth2, mTLS, HMAC, JWT, API keys
curl Patterns	Request construction, response inspection, retries, TLS, file upload
httpx Patterns	Python HTTP client — sync, async, sessions, auth, error handling
Error Handling	Status code decisions, client-side handling, retry strategies, ISE errors
Pagination	Offset, cursor, Link header — ISE ERS, GitHub, Meraki, FastAPI
Rate Limiting	Headers, client throttling, API-specific limits, FastAPI middleware
GraphQL	Queries, mutations, variables, pagination, GitHub GraphQL, introspection
OpenAPI	Spec structure, FastAPI generation, ISE OpenAPI, code generation
Webhooks	Receiving, signature verification, GitHub/Meraki hooks, reliability
gRPC	Protocol Buffers, grpcurl, streaming, Python client/server
API Testing	CLI-first testing, collections as scripts, contract validation

Topic

Description

HTTP methods, status codes, headers, query parameters, HATEOAS

Basic, Bearer, OAuth2, mTLS, HMAC, JWT, API keys

Request construction, response inspection, retries, TLS, file upload

Python HTTP client — sync, async, sessions, auth, error handling

Status code decisions, client-side handling, retry strategies, ISE errors