Use pathWithComponents: and stringByAppendingPathExtension: for better consistency with URL creation (+4 squashed commits)
Squashed commits:
[90e8970] Also use pathWithComponents: for "checkouts" with token and fixing tests by appending a slash to "api" and "meta"
[4eb36a4] No longer appending = for purposely blank values
[4c0f4e2] Improve method names, use of constants and appending .json when assembling the NSURLCompenents path at the end
[935cbb2] forgot to stage /meta

Improve method names, use of constants and appending .json when assembling the NSURLCompenents path at the end

No longer appending = for purposely blank values

Also use pathWithComponents: for "checkouts" with token and fixing tests by appending a slash to "api" and "meta"

Use pathWithComponents: and stringByAppendingPathExtension: for better consistency with URL creation