Dee Jacobi

Dee Jacobi

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Google Directions API Helper for IOS, Written in Swift

PXGoogleDirections

Google Directions API SDK for iOS, entirely written in Swift.   

šŸ—ŗ Features

  • Supports all features from the Google Directions API as of August 2018 (see here for a full list: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/directions)
  • Supports "open in Google Maps app", both for specific locations and directions request
    • also supports the callback feature to get the user back to your app when he's done in Google Maps
    • in case the Google Maps app is not installed, also supports fallback to the built-in Apple Maps app
  • Available both with modern, Swift-style completion blocks, or Objective-C-style delegation patterns
  • Queries are made over HTTPS
  • JSON is used behind the scenes to help reduce the size of the responses
  • Available through CocoaPods and Carthage

šŸ†• New in V1.6

  • Compatibility with Google Places IDs (usage: PXLocation.googlePlaceId("gplaceid"), or PXLocation.googlePlaceId(gmsPlace.placeID) if you're already using Google's Places SDK for iOS)
  • Compatibility with Swift 4.2
  • Updated to Google Maps iOS SDK 2.7
  • Availability through Swift Package Manager (cancelled for V1.6)

šŸ†• New in V1.5.1

  • Updated to Google Maps iOS SDK 2.5
  • The PXGoogleDirections Pod is now released as a static library (requires Cocoapods 1.4.0)
  • Other bug fixes

šŸ†• New in V1.4

  • Compatibility with Swift 4
  • Availability through Carthage
  • Slight improvements to projects mixing this pod with Google Maps and/or Google Places pods (but mixing Google Maps iOS SDK with other Pods is still terrible...)

šŸ†• New in V1.3

  • Full Swift 3 support
  • Full Google Maps iOS SDK 2.0+ support
  • Added a trafficModel property on the PXGoogleDirections class to match Google's one in the API (recently added); it works only for driving routes, and when a departure date is specified
  • Fixed a bug where drawing a route would only draw a basic, rough representation of it taken from the route object; now there is an option for drawing a detailed route in the drawOnMap method of the PXGoogleDirectionsRoute class
  • Other small bug fixes

āš ļø Requirements

  • Runs on iOS 9.3 and later.
  • Compatible with Swift 4 / Xcode 9 and later.
    • Please use v1.3 if you are on Swift 3 and/or Xcode 8.
    • Please use v1.2.3 if you need compatibility with a previous version of Swift.
  • The SDK depends on the official Google Maps SDK for iOS (more information here: Google Maps iOS SDK)

šŸ’» Installation

From Carthage

To use PXGoogleDirections in your project add the following line to your Cartfile:

github "Poulpix/PXGoogleDirections"

Alternatively, if you wish to target a specific version of the library, simply append it at the end of the line in the Carttfile, e.g.: github "Poulpix/PXGoogleDirections" ~> 1.5.

Then run the following command from the Terminal:

carthage update

Finally, back to Xcode, drag & drop the generated framework in the "Embedded Binaries" section of your target's General tab. The framework should be located in the Carthage/Build/iOS subfolder of your Xcode project.

Dropping a Carthage-generated framework in Xcode

Important: Carthage is only supported starting from version 1.4 of this library. Previous versions of this library will not work.

From Cocoapods

To use PXGoogleDirections in your project add the following Podfile to your project:

source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'

platform :ios, '9.3'
use_frameworks!

pod 'PXGoogleDirections'

Then run the following command from the Terminal:

pod install

Important: If your project needs both PXGoogleDirections and Google Maps and/or Google Places iOS SDK, you will run into problems. Please see the "Compatibility with Google pods" paragraph below, and do not hesitate to contact me and describe your issue if you require assistance!

From source

Building from raw source code is the preferred method if you wish to avoid known issues with the Google Maps iOS SDK conflicts with the library. However, you'll be lacking the automation and version updates the Cocoapods and Carthage frameworks provide.

To build from source, follow these simple steps:

  • Clone the repository
  • Add the whole PXGoogleDirections project to your own Xcode project
  • Add a dependency between the two projects and build
  • Do not forget to add the output of the PXGoogleDirections project (PXGoogleDirections.framework) to the "Embedded Binaries" section of your Xcode project's main target

Adding the PXGoogleDirections framework as an embedded binary in Xcode

āŒØļø Usage

Quick-start in two lines of Swift code:

  1. Reference the library like this:
import PXGoogleDirections

2.    Create an API object:

let directionsAPI = PXGoogleDirections(apiKey: "<insert your Google API key here>",
   from: PXLocation.coordinateLocation(CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(37.331690, -122.030762)),
   to: PXLocation.specificLocation("Googleplex", "Mountain View", "United States"))

3.    Run the Directions request:

directionsAPI.calculateDirections({ response in
 switch response {
  case let .error(_, error):
   // Oops, something bad happened, see the error object for more information
   break
  case let .success(request, routes):
   // Do your work with the routes object array here
   break
 }
})

Important: You normally don't need to call GMSServices.provideAPIKey() yourself: it will be called by PXGoogleDirections when initializing the SDK.

See "Documentation" below for more information on the available properties and response data.

šŸ“š Documentation

The SDK provides an integrated documentation within Xcode, with full autocomplete support.

To help getting you started, a sample project is also available in the "Sample" subfolder of this repository.

It is designed to demo the main features of both the API and the SDK.

Sample app screenshot 1 Sample app screenshot 2

šŸ˜± Compatibility with Google pods

Since V1.3, PXGoogleDirections uses Google's latest branch of Google Maps iOS SDK, which has now been split into smaller, more modular frameworks. PXGoogleDirections has a dependency with three of them:

  • GoogleMapsCore
  • GoogleMapsBase
  • GoogleMaps

The Google Places iOS SDK is not required.

If your app also requires the Google Maps iOS SDK (for drawing on a map, for example), you will run into troubles because of conflicts with the bundled Google Maps iOS SDK in the pod. This is because of Google's way of releasing its pods as static frameworks, and not dynamic ones.

Here is the only workaround known to date:

  1. Remove PXGoogleDirections from your Podfile and issue a pod update.
  2. Add all the Google dependencies to your Podfile (e.g.: pod GoogleMaps, pod GooglePlaces) and issue a pod update.
  3. Open a Terminal in your folder's root folder, and reference PXGoogleDirections as a git submodule, like this:
git submodule add https://github.com/poulpix/PXGoogleDirections.git Frameworks/External/PXGoogleDirections

This will download all of the PXGoogleDirections project in a subfolder of your own project (Frameworks/External/PXGoogleDirections). Of course you can change this path if you like.

Important: You may also request a specific version of the framework by adding the -b <branch> switch to the git submodule command, like this:

git submodule add -b <branch> https://github.com/poulpix/PXGoogleDirections.git Frameworks/External/PXGoogleDirections

To find out the appropriate branch name, check out all the available branches on Github

4.    Update your Podfile to give instructions on how to build both your project and the PXGoogleDirections submodule:

source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'

workspace 'test.xcworkspace' # Your project's workspace
project 'test.xcodeproj' # Your project's Xcode project
project 'Frameworks/External/PXGoogleDirections/PXGoogleDirections.xcodeproj' # Update folder structure if needed

target 'test' do
   project 'test.xcodeproj'
   platform :ios, '10.0' # Update for your needs

   use_frameworks!

   # Update these lines depending on which Google pods you need
   pod 'GoogleMaps'
   pod 'GooglePlaces'
   # Other pods...
end

# This tells Cocoapods how to build the subproject
target 'PXGoogleDirections' do
   project 'Frameworks/External/PXGoogleDirections/PXGoogleDirections.xcodeproj'
   platform :ios, '9.3'

   pod 'GoogleMaps'
end

5.    Now you need to do a pod install in two locations:

  • your project's root directory,
  • the PXGoogleDirections submodule's root directory (e.g. Frameworks/External/PXGoogleDirections).

 

6.    Open Xcode with your project.xcworkspace and build the PXGoogleDirections target, then your app's target. Everything should build properly.

šŸ’£ Known issues

Depending on your setup, you might see one or several of these known issues:

Lots of messages like these at runtime (usually application startup): Class GMSxxx_whatever is implemented in both (name of your app) and (reference to PXGoogleDirections framework). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined. This is because with Carthage or Cocoapods you usually have two versions of the Google Maps iOS SDK : the one that has been linked with the PXGoogleDirections library, and the one you will be forced to link against in your own application if you wish to use it explicitly. From what I've seen, there is no real impact to these warnings as long as both versions are equivalent. They only pollute your output console at runtime.

Messages like these at runtime (usually when showing a Google Maps view): Main Thread Checker: UI API called on a background thread: -[UIApplication setNetworkActivityIndicatorVisible:] This behavior is new to Xcode 9, and it seems like the culprit is the Google Maps iOS SDK itself, not the sample app provided with the library. These messages are not really harmful, but they are not sane either. If you find a solution, please PM me!

The framework is not yet ready for Swift Package Manager since it requires static linking to Google Maps iOS SDKs and inclusion of a Google Maps resources bundle; both of those tasks can't be done with Swift Package Manager at this time.

šŸ™šŸ» Credit

šŸ“œ License

The PXGoogleDirections SDK is licensed under the New BSD license. (see LICENSE for more information.)

šŸ“® Contact

Don't hesitate to drop me a line on Github, Twitter, Stack Overflow, or by email:

Download Details:

Author: poulpix
Source code: https://github.com/poulpix/PXGoogleDirections

License: BSD-3-Clause license
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Domingo Jakubowski

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Top 10 API Security Threats Every API Team Should Know

As more and more data is exposed via APIs either as API-first companies or for the explosion of single page apps/JAMStack, API security can no longer be an afterthought. The hard part about APIs is that it provides direct access to large amounts of data while bypassing browser precautions. Instead of worrying about SQL injection and XSS issues, you should be concerned about the bad actor who was able to paginate through all your customer records and their data.

Typical prevention mechanisms like Captchas and browser fingerprinting wonā€™t work since APIs by design need to handle a very large number of API accesses even by a single customer. So where do you start? The first thing is to put yourself in the shoes of a hacker and then instrument your APIs to detect and block common attacks along with unknown unknowns for zero-day exploits. Some of these are on the OWASP Security API list, but not all.

Insecure pagination and resource limits

Most APIs provide access to resources that are lists of entities such as /users or /widgets. A client such as a browser would typically filter and paginate through this list to limit the number items returned to a client like so:

First Call: GET /items?skip=0&take=10 
Second Call: GET /items?skip=10&take=10

However, if that entity has any PII or other information, then a hacker could scrape that endpoint to get a dump of all entities in your database. This could be most dangerous if those entities accidently exposed PII or other sensitive information, but could also be dangerous in providing competitors or others with adoption and usage stats for your business or provide scammers with a way to get large email lists. See how Venmo data was scraped

A naive protection mechanism would be to check the take count and throw an error if greater than 100 or 1000. The problem with this is two-fold:

  1. For data APIs, legitimate customers may need to fetch and sync a large number of records such as via cron jobs. Artificially small pagination limits can force your API to be very chatty decreasing overall throughput. Max limits are to ensure memory and scalability requirements are met (and prevent certain DDoS attacks), not to guarantee security.
  2. This offers zero protection to a hacker that writes a simple script that sleeps a random delay between repeated accesses.
skip = 0
while True:    response = requests.post('https://api.acmeinc.com/widgets?take=10&skip=' + skip),                      headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer' + ' ' + sys.argv[1]})    print("Fetched 10 items")    sleep(randint(100,1000))    skip += 10

How to secure against pagination attacks

To secure against pagination attacks, you should track how many items of a single resource are accessed within a certain time period for each user or API key rather than just at the request level. By tracking API resource access at the user level, you can block a user or API key once they hit a threshold such as ā€œtouched 1,000,000 items in a one hour periodā€. This is dependent on your API use case and can even be dependent on their subscription with you. Like a Captcha, this can slow down the speed that a hacker can exploit your API, like a Captcha if they have to create a new user account manually to create a new API key.

Insecure API key generation

Most APIs are protected by some sort of API key or JWT (JSON Web Token). This provides a natural way to track and protect your API as API security tools can detect abnormal API behavior and block access to an API key automatically. However, hackers will want to outsmart these mechanisms by generating and using a large pool of API keys from a large number of users just like a web hacker would use a large pool of IP addresses to circumvent DDoS protection.

How to secure against API key pools

The easiest way to secure against these types of attacks is by requiring a human to sign up for your service and generate API keys. Bot traffic can be prevented with things like Captcha and 2-Factor Authentication. Unless there is a legitimate business case, new users who sign up for your service should not have the ability to generate API keys programmatically. Instead, only trusted customers should have the ability to generate API keys programmatically. Go one step further and ensure any anomaly detection for abnormal behavior is done at the user and account level, not just for each API key.

Accidental key exposure

APIs are used in a way that increases the probability credentials are leaked:

  1. APIs are expected to be accessed over indefinite time periods, which increases the probability that a hacker obtains a valid API key thatā€™s not expired. You save that API key in a server environment variable and forget about it. This is a drastic contrast to a user logging into an interactive website where the session expires after a short duration.
  2. The consumer of an API has direct access to the credentials such as when debugging via Postman or CURL. It only takes a single developer to accidently copy/pastes the CURL command containing the API key into a public forum like in GitHub Issues or Stack Overflow.
  3. API keys are usually bearer tokens without requiring any other identifying information. APIs cannot leverage things like one-time use tokens or 2-factor authentication.

If a key is exposed due to user error, one may think you as the API provider has any blame. However, security is all about reducing surface area and risk. Treat your customer data as if itā€™s your own and help them by adding guards that prevent accidental key exposure.

How to prevent accidental key exposure

The easiest way to prevent key exposure is by leveraging two tokens rather than one. A refresh token is stored as an environment variable and can only be used to generate short lived access tokens. Unlike the refresh token, these short lived tokens can access the resources, but are time limited such as in hours or days.

The customer will store the refresh token with other API keys. Then your SDK will generate access tokens on SDK init or when the last access token expires. If a CURL command gets pasted into a GitHub issue, then a hacker would need to use it within hours reducing the attack vector (unless it was the actual refresh token which is low probability)

Exposure to DDoS attacks

APIs open up entirely new business models where customers can access your API platform programmatically. However, this can make DDoS protection tricky. Most DDoS protection is designed to absorb and reject a large number of requests from bad actors during DDoS attacks but still need to let the good ones through. This requires fingerprinting the HTTP requests to check against what looks like bot traffic. This is much harder for API products as all traffic looks like bot traffic and is not coming from a browser where things like cookies are present.

Stopping DDoS attacks

The magical part about APIs is almost every access requires an API Key. If a request doesnā€™t have an API key, you can automatically reject it which is lightweight on your servers (Ensure authentication is short circuited very early before later middleware like request JSON parsing). So then how do you handle authenticated requests? The easiest is to leverage rate limit counters for each API key such as to handle X requests per minute and reject those above the threshold with a 429 HTTP response. There are a variety of algorithms to do this such as leaky bucket and fixed window counters.

Incorrect server security

APIs are no different than web servers when it comes to good server hygiene. Data can be leaked due to misconfigured SSL certificate or allowing non-HTTPS traffic. For modern applications, there is very little reason to accept non-HTTPS requests, but a customer could mistakenly issue a non HTTP request from their application or CURL exposing the API key. APIs do not have the protection of a browser so things like HSTS or redirect to HTTPS offer no protection.

How to ensure proper SSL

Test your SSL implementation over at Qualys SSL Test or similar tool. You should also block all non-HTTP requests which can be done within your load balancer. You should also remove any HTTP headers scrub any error messages that leak implementation details. If your API is used only by your own apps or can only be accessed server-side, then review Authoritative guide to Cross-Origin Resource Sharing for REST APIs

Incorrect caching headers

APIs provide access to dynamic data thatā€™s scoped to each API key. Any caching implementation should have the ability to scope to an API key to prevent cross-pollution. Even if you donā€™t cache anything in your infrastructure, you could expose your customers to security holes. If a customer with a proxy server was using multiple API keys such as one for development and one for production, then they could see cross-pollinated data.

#api management #api security #api best practices #api providers #security analytics #api management policies #api access tokens #api access #api security risks #api access keys

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Public ASX100 APIs: The Essential List

Weā€™ve conducted some initial research into the public APIs of the ASX100 because we regularly have conversations about what others are doing with their APIs and what best practices look like. Being able to point to good local examples and explain what is happening in Australia is a key part of this conversation.

Method

The method used for this initial research was to obtain a list of the ASX100 (as of 18 September 2020). Then work through each company looking at the following:

  1. Whether the company had a public API: this was found by googling ā€œ[company name] APIā€ and ā€œ[company name] API developerā€ and ā€œ[company name] developer portalā€. Sometimes the companyā€™s website was navigated or searched.
  2. Some data points about the API were noted, such as the URL of the portal/documentation and the method they used to publish the API (portal, documentation, web page).
  3. Observations were recorded that piqued the interest of the researchers (you will find these below).
  4. Other notes were made to support future research.
  5. You will find a summary of the data in the infographic below.

Data

With regards to how the APIs are shared:

#api #api-development #api-analytics #apis #api-integration #api-testing #api-security #api-gateway

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Best Swift iOS App Development Company in USA & India

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An API-First Approach For Designing Restful APIs | Hacker Noon

Iā€™ve been working with Restful APIs for some time now and one thing that I love to do is to talk about APIs.

So, today I will show you how to build an API using the API-First approach and Design First with OpenAPI Specification.

First thing first, if you donā€™t know whatā€™s an API-First approach means, it would be nice you stop reading this and check the blog post that I wrote to the Farfetchs blog where I explain everything that you need to know to start an API using API-First.

Preparing the ground

Before you get your hands dirty, letā€™s prepare the ground and understand the use case that will be developed.

Tools

If you desire to reproduce the examples that will be shown here, you will need some of those items below.

  • NodeJS
  • OpenAPI Specification
  • Text Editor (Iā€™ll use VSCode)
  • Command Line

Use Case

To keep easy to understand, letā€™s use the Todo List App, it is a very common concept beyond the software development community.

#api #rest-api #openai #api-first-development #api-design #apis #restful-apis #restful-api

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Marcelle Smith

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What Are Good Traits That Make Great API Product Managers

As more companies realize the benefits of an API-first mindset and treating their APIs as products, there is a growing need for good API product management practices to make a companyā€™s API strategy a reality. However, API product management is a relatively new field with little established knowledge on what is API product management and what a PM should be doing to ensure their API platform is successful.

Many of the current practices of API product management have carried over from other products and platforms like web and mobile, but API products have their own unique set of challenges due to the way they are marketed and used by customers. While it would be rare for a consumer mobile app to have detailed developer docs and a developer relations team, youā€™ll find these items common among API product-focused companies. A second unique challenge is that APIs are very developer-centric and many times API PMs are engineers themselves. Yet, this can cause an API or developer program to lose empathy for what their customers actually want if good processes are not in place. Just because youā€™re an engineer, donā€™t assume your customers will want the same features and use cases that you want.

This guide lays out what is API product management and some of the things you should be doing to be a good product manager.

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