JSON MASTERY FOR API DEVELOPMENT: RESTFUL SERVICES AND DATA INTERCHANGE: BUILD EFFICIENT APIS WITH JSON SCHEMA VALIDATION, PARSING, SERIALIZATION, AND MODERN WEB SERVICE INTEGRATION Paperback – February 18, 2026

Design JSON payloads that stay stable, validate cleanly, and integrate smoothly across real REST APIs.JSON is easy to generate and easy to get wrong in production, precision loss, duplicate keys, ambiguous null handling, fragile patch formats, schema drift, and client breaks that show up after release.This book shows you how to model API data with intention, lock contracts with JSON Schema and JSON Type Definition, and ship interoperable RESTful services that handle validation, errors, versioning, streaming, and integrity checks without turning your API into a brittle rules engine.model resources with consistent field naming, envelopes, and partial responses that do not surprise clientschoose between JSON Schema and JSON Type Definition based on type safety goals and tooling constraintswrite schemas that matter, types, required fields, formats, patterns, and refactoring common anti patternsbuild reliable polymorphism with oneOf anyOf allOf, discriminators, tagged unions, and conditional rulesconfigure parsers defensively, strict modes, size and depth limits, streaming parsers, and stable serializationdesign payloads that match REST semantics, status codes, caching validators, content negotiation, and safe retriesstandardize errors with Problem Details, field level validation mapping, correlation ids, and debug friendly responsesimplement patch strategies with JSON Patch and Merge Patch, stable pointer paths, and post patch validationevolve contracts safely with compatibility rules, enum evolution, deprecations, negotiation, and contract testing in CIapply security controls for JSON inputs, safe binding against mass assignment, and least privilege responsesuse canonical JSON and signing concepts for hashing, request signatures, replay protection, and verifiable storagemove large data with NDJSON and record oriented streaming, backpressure control, and partial success bulk importshandle time, binary, and money correctly, RFC 3339 rules, Base64 media handling, and precision safe decimalspublish contracts with OpenAPI 3.1, reuse components without drift, and choose schema patterns that generate wellprepare for production with observability, schema validation cost measurement, compatibility monitoring, and governanceThis guide includes practical governance guidance such as review checklist and quality gate patterns that help teams keep contracts consistent as systems grow.It is a code focused guide with working examples across schema design, OpenAPI integration, validation, patching, streaming, and operational checks, so you can apply each technique directly to real services.Grab your copy today. Read more