What does a valid request contain?
A request combines the https://api.iprout.com base URL, one supported path, and either an Authorization Bearer token or X-API-Key header. Lookup operations use GET and do not require a JSON request body. Keep URL construction and secret injection separate so an address can never overwrite headers or other request configuration.
What does a success response contain?
Lookup success responses contain the resolved IP and available geographic and network fields. The usage endpoint returns account totals and an api_keys array instead. Use the endpoint-specific schema, check content type, and model optional location fields as nullable rather than substituting inaccurate values.
How should compatibility be maintained?
Treat new response properties as additive. Parse only the fields your product needs, preserve numeric types for coordinates and counts, and avoid positional or string-splitting logic. A generated client can start from the OpenAPI contract, but its timeout, retry, secret storage, and nullable-field behavior still require review.
How should the complete HTTP exchange be implemented?
Construct an authenticated GET request without a body, select one supported path, and decode endpoint-specific JSON only after checking status and content type. Keep lookup and usage models separate. Keep this responsibility close to the IPRout client so the behavior documented in API Request and Response Format remains consistent across web requests, workers, and scheduled jobs.
How should the complete HTTP exchange be verified?
Capture sanitized request and response fixtures for each endpoint. Confirm numeric types remain numeric, optional fields tolerate null, and unknown additive fields do not break decoding. Automate the stable cases and reserve live checks for controlled environments so verification is repeatable without consuming unnecessary production allowance.
How should the complete HTTP exchange be operated?
Version application models independently from UI presentation and keep raw response logging disabled by default. Record contract mismatches as distinct telemetry rather than generic network failures. Write down the owner and expected behavior so an alert or product change can be handled without reconstructing the original integration decisions.
Where does the complete HTTP exchange stop?
The wire format defines interoperability, not the business meaning of an IP result. Product code must still account for approximation, privacy, user correction, and fallback behavior. Treat that limit as part of the feature contract and direct callers to the related guide when they need a different guarantee or control.
What belongs in the release review for the complete HTTP exchange?
Review the deployed implementation of API Request and Response Format, not only a local sample. Confirm the intended endpoint, credential source, timeout, response model, and fallback from the environment that will carry real traffic. Use the verification cases above as release evidence, inspect generated browser assets and logs for secret exposure, and make sure dashboards identify the workload without storing raw credentials or unnecessary IP data. Record the configuration owner and rollback action before enabling the feature broadly.
When should the complete HTTP exchange be revisited?
Revisit the complete HTTP exchange when traffic volume, plan capacity, application ownership, deployment regions, browser origins, data retention, or the product consequence of a lookup changes. Compare the current implementation with the documented operating boundary rather than assuming the original decision still fits. Update tests and internal runbooks together, then verify the public API contract and related IPRout guides before rolling the change across every service that shares the client or account.
External references
Continue with the standards and official documentation most relevant to this guide.