Introducing QUERY The IETF has published a document detailing the QUERY verb. The Query verb neatly solves the problem of asking APIs for LOTS of data or conditional data. In other words, QUERY enables API providers to provide a means for clients to ask the server about data, where the client isn’t sure what data is available. A worked example Working in Agri-tech, I often want to find out information about animals....
While working on an API for my day job last week, I needed to do a SQL Inner Join with Sequelize and Typescript in a web API. Here’s how I achieved it. Environment: Things move quickly in the JS ecosystem. Here are the library versions used in the subject API at the time of writing: "dependencies": { "@types/express": "~4.0.39", "@types/sequelize": "^4.27.21", "express": "~4.16.2", "sequelize": "4.38.0", } Context: I have an identifier in one system that I need to correlate with an identifier in a second system, but I could only do that via an intermediate identifier, also in the second system....