Best Practices

When integrating with the Waza API, following best practices to ensure seamless transactions, enhanced security, and optimized performance is essential. Here are some recommended integration best practices:

1. Thorough Testing: Before going live, extensively test your integration in our sandbox environment. Ensure all possible scenarios, edge cases, and error handling are well-tested.

2. Error Handling: Considering our commitment to clear error feedback, develop robust error-handling mechanisms. Properly handle different HTTP error codes and present user-friendly messages to end-users when necessary.

3. Store Events: It's recommended to store received events (especially webhooks) for future analysis or debugging.

4. Rate Limiting Awareness: Implement mechanisms to queue and retry requests, ensuring you don't exceed these limits and cause service disruptions.

5. Idempotency: Use idempotent requests wherever applicable to ensure safe retries. This ensures that if a request is made more than once, it won't have a different outcome.

6. Keep Your API Keys Secret: Never expose your Secret API keys in client-side code or public repositories. Regularly rotate and update your API keys for enhanced security.

7. Stay Updated: Regularly check for updates or changes to our documentation. This ensures you're always leveraging the latest features and security enhancements.

8. Validation: Before sending a request, validate all data on the client side to ensure it meets the API's requirements. This reduces unnecessary failed requests.

For Pagination

1. Navigating through Pages: Begin with page=1 and incrementally adjust the page number until the returned.total_pages value is met.
2. Tailoring Page Size: If dealing with numerous minor entries or if bandwidth isn't a concern, consider amplifying the limit. If otherwise, reduce the limit if data items are extensive or bandwidth is constrained.
3. Managing Extensive Datasets: Constantly monitor total_items and total_pages. With significantly large datasets in view, employ strategies like filtering or sorting to minimize the items you need to process.