Background Information

The various programs and protocols used to interface with Avaya Spaces are widely used, and should be mostly familiar to developers with experience using other APIs. If they’re not familiar to you yet, that’s okay too- none of them are too difficult to understand. The links below will provide you with a working understand of these systems, and are intended to be used as a springboard for further research.

Avaya Spaces offers a Representational State Transfer (REST) API for third-party interfaces. The concept of REST systems, the HTTP protocol, and basic internet architecture should be well understood.

• https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/http-the-protocol-every-web-developer-must-know: basic HTTP requests and URLs
• http://rest.elkstein.org/: A quick tutorial on how REST systems works
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer: A Wikipedia article on REST, for developers who want to go further in depth

Additionally, we recommend Postman (https://www.getpostman.com/) for experimenting with HTTP requests and APIs.

Avaya Cloud Identity implements OAuth 2 as its protocol for authorization and authentication.

• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-oauth-2: A comprehensive guide to OAuth 2
• https://oauth.net/2/: An introductory site to OAuth 2
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749: The official OAuth 2 protocol specifications

For more information on how Avaya Spaces uses OAuth 2, see the Authorization Guide.

Avaya Spaces uses a websocket library called Socket.IO as it's real time communications protocol.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket.IO: the Wikipedia article for Socket.IO provides a brief but useful overview of the framework.
• https://socket.io/: The official Socket.io website
• https://socket.io/get-started/chat/: A basic Socket.IO tutorial taken straight from the Socket.IO website
• https://www.tutorialspoint.com/socket.io/index.htm: A lengthy, comprehensive tutorial

For more information on how Socket.IO is used in Avaya Spaces, see the Socket.IO Guide.