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Endpoint

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˈendpɔɪnt/nounCore term

In software engineering, endpoint means: A specific URL of an API that accepts requests for one kind of action, such as GET /users to list users or POST /orders to create an order.

In Turkish: uç nokta, API uç noktası

How it is used

Backend developers add, expose, call, secure and deprecate endpoints. You will hear 'the login endpoint', 'a new endpoint for reports' and 'This endpoint is slow.'

Example sentences

  1. I added a new endpoint that returns the user's last ten orders.

  2. The search endpoint takes four seconds under load.

Common collocations

  • call an endpoint
  • add an endpoint
  • API endpoint
  • expose an endpoint
  • deprecated endpoint
  • APIShort for application programming interface: a set of rules that lets one program ask another program for data or actions in a fixed, documented way.
  • RESTShort for representational state transfer: a common style for web APIs in which resources have URLs and are handled with HTTP methods such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE.
  • status codeA three-digit number in an HTTP response that tells the client what happened, such as 200 for success, 404 for not found or 500 for a server error.
  • payloadThe actual data carried by a request, response or message, as opposed to the headers and other information around it.
  • authenticationThe process of checking who a user or system is, for example with a password, a token or a fingerprint, before giving access.

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