Personal and Private == “User” Data
sometimes all the data is ‘user’ data
Anyone can access == “Anonymous” Data
(call a method using API key and arguments)
Authentication — ensuring someone’s identity (i.e. “we’ve confirmed this user is indeed Jarrod Parkes”)
Authorization — providing someone access to something (i.e. “this user is allowed to post ratings for movies”)
Which methods to use?
get a list of movies by genre? /genre/{$id$}/moview
get a list of our favorite movies? /account/{$id$}/favorite/movies
add or remove a movie from our favorites list? /account/{id}/favorite
Movie DB API
https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/getting-started
Getting strated
1. Partially implemented so we can focus on networking
2. Uses the AppDelegate like singleton
3. Each HTTP request is broken into 7 steps
