𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝗣𝗜𝘀

𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝗣𝗜𝘀

Developers often trust third-party API responses too much. They put these responses directly into their business logic. They send Stripe or Shopify data straight to the database. This is a mistake. Vendors change field names. They remove versions. Your app crashes. You get null pointer exceptions.

Build a resilient system. Use an Anti-Corruption Layer. Wrap every external integration in a mapper. Convert the vendor schema into your own model. Do this as soon as the data enters your system.

Why do this?

• You update one function if the API changes.
• You stop searching your whole codebase.
• Your core logic stays clean.
• Your system depends on your own contracts.

It feels like extra work. Decoupling saves you. Professional architecture is not fragile. Your logic should not care who provides the data. It only cares if the data follows your rules.

Source: https://dev.to/chris_lee_5e58cce05f5d01d/stop-trusting-your-third-party-apis-1eo5