When you’re starting to build your Connector, the first thing you need to find out is the type of API you will be working with. Cyclr is built primarily for REST APIs, but works well with GraphQL and SOAP as well.
REST APIs
A REST or REpresentation State Transfer is a software architectural style that developers apply to web APIs. It can be used to communicate over the internet to make integrations simple and scalable. RESTs architectural style permits a requesting system to get robust access and redefine representations of web-based resources. It does so by deploying a predefined set of stateless protocols and standard operations.
SOAP APIs
SOAP or Simple Object Access Protocol is a message specification for exchanging information between systems and applications. It permits processes using different operating systems via HTTP, SOAP APIs are designed to create, recover, update and delete records.
GraphQL APIs
GraphQL is a specification for a query language and an alternative to REST. Created by Facebook in 2012, it was used internally before a specification was published for it. Companies like GitHub, Pinterest and Coursera have already adopted GraphQL and put it to use both internally and externally.