Final answer:
API editing starts with a POST or PUT request to lock or begin a transaction and ends with a commit transaction or unlock request, along with error checking.
Step-by-step explanation:
When you need to begin and finish editing an item through the API, there are specific methods that you invoke. To start editing, you often send a POST or PUT request to the API endpoint with the item's identifier and the data you want to edit. This might involve calling methods such as beginTransaction or lockItem to ensure that the edit session is managed correctly. When you have completed the editing, to finish you would invoke methods such as commitTransaction or unlockItem, followed by a final POST or PUT request that contains the updated item details. This ends the editing process and typically includes error checking and confirmation that the changes were successfully applied.