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- Last Updated: April 04, 2024
- Blake Gentry
Editor's note: This is a cross post from Blake Gentry, an engineer at Heroku. This is a post about the recently announced Heroku Platform API JSON Schema and how I used that schema to write an auto-generated Go client for the API. Heroku's API team has spent a large part of the past year designing a new version of the platform API. While this is the 3rd incarnation of the API, neither of the two previous versions were publicly documented. In fact, the only documentation on the old APIs that was ever published is the source code of the Heroku…
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- Last Updated: May 30, 2024
- Blake Gentry
HTTP and its secure variant, HTTPS, are the protocols used by every web client to talk to web applications. A key part of the protocol is the HTTP method. Traditionally, web applications used a very limited set of HTTP methods. It is common for application servers, proxies and routers (such as the Heroku HTTP router) to prevent unknown methods from being used. This unnecessary constraint of the Heroku HTTP router has increasingly become a limitation to developers building modern web applications. In the past, if you tried to use an unsupported HTTP method in your Heroku application, clients would receive…
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