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Endpoint

Meaning in web development, with examples

/ˈendpɔɪnt/nounCore term

In web development, endpoint means: A specific URL of an API that accepts requests for one kind of data or action, such as /api/users or /api/orders/42.

In Turkish: uç nokta, endpoint

How it is used

Developers create, call, expose, deprecate and protect endpoints, and usually name them together with a method: 'the POST /login endpoint'. API documentation lists every endpoint with its parameters.

Example sentences

  1. We need a new endpoint that returns only active users.

  2. That endpoint is deprecated; use /v2/orders instead.

Common collocations

  • API endpoint
  • call an endpoint
  • expose an endpoint
  • protected endpoint
  • deprecated endpoint
  • APIApplication Programming Interface: a defined way for one piece of software to ask another for data or actions, for example a web API that returns JSON.
  • REST APIAn API built in the REST style, where each resource has its own URL and standard HTTP methods such as GET, POST and DELETE act on it.
  • HTTP methodThe word at the start of an HTTP request that says what the client wants to do, such as GET to read, POST to create or DELETE to remove.
  • URLUniform Resource Locator: the full address of a page or file on the web, such as https://example.com/blog?page=2.

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