API Basics
1 min
structure our apis are organized around rest, have object oriented urls, accept form encoded request bodies, return json encoded responses, and use standard http response codes, authentication, and methods static ips at cross river you need to allowlist your static , public ip address before you can access our products your ip is allowlisted as part of the partner onboarding process idempotency cross river's cos system supports idempotency to retry requests without the risk of performing the request multiple times this is especially useful in situations where there is a network outage, and you aren’t sure if a previous request has been processed successfully pagination pagination is a process that divides a large dataset into smaller chunks all endpoints that return a list of resources support pagination api versioning all api endpoints contain a numbered version in the url whenever breaking changes are made to the api, a new major version will be created http status codes standard http status codes that our system might return
