ring:pre-dev-api-design

Protocol-agnostic API contract design defines abstract operations, payloads, and events between components without specifying serialization or protocols. You need it during TRD validation and data modeling to align multiple teams on clear interfaces before technology selection.

To define API contracts before choosing a technology, load TRD or PRD references, identify component interactions, and draft abstract operations. This ensures comprehensive operation definitions, error handling, and versioning without specifying protocols.

API contract design supports multi-component systems requiring integration. It captures data contracts and event specifications to prevent integration gaps across modules during the TRD and Feature Map stages.

The best way to document error handling and versioning for interface design is defining them within abstract API contracts. This captures data boundaries and comprehensive operation definitions during early data modeling stages.

You can use abstract API contracts to align multiple teams during TRD validation. By defining per-component operations and events technology-agnostically, teams establish clear data boundaries before data modeling and tech selection.

Defining protocol-agnostic API contracts is limited to abstract specifications and data modeling. It does not specify protocols, serialization formats, or component integration implementation details, requiring downstream tech selection to finalize execution.