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This learning path equips Go developers with essential API skills—from HTTP requests to authentication and testing. Master REST fundamentals, efficient request handling, authentication protocols, and automated testing. Build robust communication between Go applications and external services.
In this course, you will learn how to interact with APIs using Go. By the end of this course, you’ll understand how to make GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE requests to an API, interpret API responses, and perform basic operations like creating, reading, updating, and deleting resources.
Explore JSON handling in Go for seamless API integration. Learn to encode and decode JSON data, map between JSON and Go structs, manage nested data structures, and handle errors effectively. Master marshaling and unmarshaling techniques to build robust applications that communicate flawlessly with web services using Go's powerful JSON capabilities.
In this course, you will learn how to handle common scenarios when working with APIs in Go. You’ll explore how to manage errors effectively, work with file uploads and downloads, handle paginated API responses, and use headers effectively. By the end of this course, you’ll have a deeper understanding of practical API techniques.
In this course, you will learn how to work with various API authentication methods using Go. You’ll explore the basics of API Key authentication, manage sessions using cookies, and interact with APIs using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). By the end of this course, you’ll be able to access and interact with protected APIs securely.
Master API testing in Go using the testing package and net/http library. Learn to create comprehensive test cases, execute API requests within tests, validate responses, and handle complex scenarios including CRUD operations and authentication. Build reliable APIs with confidence through effective automated testing practices.
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