What is a rewritable API?

Question

I recently heard the term "Writable API", which is completely new to me. Can anyone explain what this means?

Answer 1

A public record API is an API that allows anyone to connect metadata to objects in the owner’s database without changing the original content.

For example, take this object: http://twitter.com/#!/MarsPhoenix/status/1917793215 . This is a tweet from Phenonix Mars Lander.

Twitter is owned by Twitter. But what if I want to tag it and share these tags with the world?

Twitter API-, . , "mars" "nasa" , devon/tag: mars devon/tag: nasa . Bob "phoenix", bob/tag: phoenix Twitter.

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http://blogs.fluidinfo.com/fluidinfo/2011/02/14/what-is-a-writable-api/

Answer 2

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@Devon , Fluidinfo: http://blogs.fluidinfo.com/fluidinfo/2009/12/01/putting-metadata-onto-tweets-with-fluiddb/

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Answer 3

A Writable API will be an API that allows you to write data to the target system / platform, rather than to a read-only API.

For example, StackOverflow / StackExchange provides a read-only API and the Twitter API Writable.