{"id":17708,"date":"2024-06-11T15:29:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T15:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=17708"},"modified":"2024-06-11T15:34:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T15:34:27","slug":"backward-and-forward-compatibility-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=17708","title":{"rendered":"Backward and Forward compatibility (API)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Showcase API<\/strong> (in protobuf)<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nmessage User {\r\n  string name = 1;\r\n  int32 id = 2;\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Backward compatibility<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you ever build against an API, it will work for all future API versions as well.<\/p>\n<p><u>Example<\/u><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nmessage User {\r\n  string name = 1;\r\n  int32 id = 2 [deprecated = true];\r\n  uint32 id_v2 = 3;\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Forward compatibility<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you ever build against an API, it will work for all past API versions as well.<\/p>\n<p><u>Example<\/u><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nmessage User {\r\n  string name = 1;\r\n  int32 id = 2;\r\n  string email = 3 [optional = true];\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showcase API (in protobuf) message User { string name = 1; int32 id = 2; } Backward compatibility If you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17708"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17708"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17719,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17708\/revisions\/17719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}