Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app
The Netflix TechBlog
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI. In the snippet above, we’re accessing the detail key for the video object with id 80154610. Instead, it is part of a different path : [videos, <id>, similars].
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