In this post I am going to talk about some of the commonly used Web API versioning strategy and hope it will help you decide which one is best suitable for your scenario.You will also see that there is no right or wrong way of designing them but I am always about options and different approaches, ultimately it is you who have to decide which approach is best suitable for you.
Uri based approach:
In this type of versioning strategy the versioning is embedded in the URI and probably the most popular one.However I personally think it is quite anti-REST as with each version the URI changes. REST is very resource oriented and it means once you have defined the URI(address) to the resource then it shouldn’t change just because you have a new version of that resource. This also means that the physical URI surface area will…
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