Square Exploration

Due Date: Tue, Apr 30

We won't have time to implement API interaction as part of this class, but I still think it's beneficial for you to play around with the API. To complete this assignment, you'll need to create a Square Developer account. You'll also need to create an application and set it up for inventory management.

Your assignment will be to use the Inventory API to determine available quantities of an item and adjust those quantities. You'll start with no items in the catalog, though, so you'll also have to create items within the catalog using the Catalog API.

As you try to puzzle out how to make these API calls, keep in mind that this is a fairly positive API experience; they provide a sandbox for you to interact with and extensive documentation of the calls. That being said, don't get discouraged if things aren't immediately obvious, Square is a big company and their API is quite sprawling as a result. Additionally, they're trying to model some complex situations, and sometimes the calls representing this concept can get fairly complicated.

To submit this assignment, add a file to the docs folder describing your experience. Make sure it answers the following questions:

• What was the most difficult part of interacting with these APIs?
• What did you find surprising?
• If you were to implement code to interact with the API, where would you start?