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How REST is used outside of the web
I was recently reading the Wikipedia article for Resource-Oriented Architectures (ROA) and stumbled across an article that made the assertion that, although REST is a technology that is very-well ...
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Should I use WADL to describe my RESTful API?
I'm about to embark on a project that makes extensive use of a properly RESTful approach. That is, it uses HATEOAS and serves up resources in a manner that allows for general exploration by a client.
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RESTful HTTP OPTIONS request content
I'm having trouble determining what I might put in the body of a response to an OPTIONS request? are there conventions? standards? What do you put? do you just provide a list of other METHODS? should ...
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Suggested HTTP REST status code for 'request limit reached'
I'm putting together a spec for a REST service, part of which will incorporate the ability to throttle users service-wide and on groups of, or on individual, resources. Equally, time-outs for these ...
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What's a RESTful url for a linked item?
This is going to be a web service that returns a JSON object. Currently, I'm using C# technology and simply using ASP.Net MVC to create the calls. This is not a web page, so SEO is not a concern.
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Handling REST Response Formats
It seems that newer websites (and API's especially) make use of request formats by adding the expected format to the end of the URL path.
/path/to/resource.html
/path/to/resource.json
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Proper RESTful routing for web applications [closed]
There seem to be a variety of RESTful design patterns. I would like to know which one provides the most flexibility and is generally preferred in web applications. I'm looking for some frameworks that ...
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How much AJAX is too much?
My current project is part of a highly linked architecture, with individual systems each owning certain pieces of data, and exposing them RESTfully. Both our web services and our user interface take ...
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How can I refactor client side functionality to create a product line-like generic design?
Assume the following situation similar to that of Stack Overflow: I have a system with a front-end that can perform various manipulations on the data (by sending messages to REST back-end):
Posting
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Integration of routes that are not resources in an MVC REST style application
I would like to keep my application relatively REST-pure for the sake of consistency, but I'm struggling philosophically with the relatively few views (maybe just one) that I'll need to build that ...
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How is oData different from a REST service?
I am looking into writing a web service API and I am thinking of creating a REST service. What does OData means in this context? Can you please explain the difference between OData and REST?
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What was SOAP invented for?
This question is inspired by this one. What was the initial goal of inventing SOAP? Why was it invented when we had old kind HTTP and REST?
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What are the deciding factors in choosing to expose a web service as a SOAP or REST service?
As far as I can see consuming SOAP requires a SOAP stack, so it is harder for your clients to consume i.e. they need to ensure that they have a SOAP stack in place that formats the POST data and the ...
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Which .NET REST approach/technology/tool should I use?
I am implementing a RESTful web service and several client applications that are mostly in Silverlight. I am finding a litany of options for developing both the server-side and client-side of the API ...
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Naming for a REST webservice
I have a rest webservice with an endpoint www.foobar.com/service.svc/MAC (migration authorisation code). Posting and getting to that adds and gets one MAC respectively. I now need to impliment a new ...
