REpresentational State Transfer
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How to make my web app restful
I have a web application which I want to make RESTful.
Here is the structure of the app:
Top level has a bunch of search screens, they are basically tabs which search different parts of database ...
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Should web service response use a base class or generic class?
In my RESTful WCF web service I have something like the following response object.
public class WebResponse<T>
{
public bool Success { get; set; }
public T Data { get; set; } ...
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Sub-Resource data should be embedded in Resource entity or duplicated in NoSQL document?
I have a scenario similar to as depicted below,
public class Post {
private int id;
private int postType;
private int score;
private User originalPoster;
private String title;
...
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A Web application as a REST API client: how to handle resource identifiers
Several concepts related to REST conflict in my head when I try implementing it.
I have a REST-ful back-end API system that holds the business logic, and a web application that provides the UI. From ...
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Is it possible to use a “non-commercial” REST API in a for-pay app?
I am interested in integrating the results of 3rd-party news API's into my for-pay application. The APIs would be a very small part of the app (e. g. the app is not just reselling the APIs). I have ...
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When to use nested resources in a RESTful API
I have two resources: users and links.
Users can have several links associated with them. I have designed my RESTful API so that you can reach the links associated with a user at the following URI:
...
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Database data structures for RESTful api
I am creating a RESTful API. I am struggling to decide on the best way to design my database tables around my resources.
Initially, I though a table per resource would be a good way to go, but I'm ...
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OData Clarity Questions [closed]
I recently started working with OData and had a few questions. Perhaps some of you may be able to shed some light. To start OData doesn't seem to work well when there is some form of business logic ...
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Trailing slash in RESTful API
I have been having a debate about what to do with a trailing slash in a RESTful API.
Lets say I have a resource called dogs and subordinate resources for individual dogs. We can therefore do the ...
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0answers
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API for iOS & Android [closed]
I am creating an API written in PHP to serve requests from an iOS app & Android. Now there is method wherein the app will submit a username and password for login. I am concern of the security, ...
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design pattern to expose MongoDB to REST api?
We are setting up something like a document library on Amazon AWS. The architecture is basically 1. AMI server running MongoDB 2. A bunch of PDF documents on elastic block storage 3. Some server-side ...
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Will Authentication over HTTPS Slow My Application?
I am building a web application and RESTful web service.
I have been reading various articles about the best way to authenticate the requests to the web service.
The best option for me seems to be ...
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What's a good strategy for managing static data in an SOA?
I'm working on a web application that sits on top of a number of RESTful web services, interacting primarily with those services through JSON formatted messages over HTTP. Our application has a great ...
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Appropriate selection of security framework
I have a web application to be developed using RESTeasy API and for this I have to implement security (Form based authentication). So i am not sure about the most appropriate fit for this. As I ...
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Best tutorials for learning RESTful API's coming from Objective-C [closed]
I'm creating an iOS app, and it's come time for me to build the server to handle all of the users that are going to be on the app.
I have been writing nothing but ObjC code for quite some time, and ...
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3answers
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RESTful Design: Multiple Relationships Between the Same 2 Entities
I am in the process of designing RESTful web services and got stuck at one point. The design is very simple with 3 entities:
- Project
- Status
- Employee
The part I am having trouble with is ...
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Implementing the command pattern in a RESTful API
I'm in the process of designing an HTTP API, hopefully making it as RESTful as possible.
There are some actions which functionality spreads over a few resources, and sometime needs to be undone.
I ...
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Does decoupling trump DRY in REST?
I am building a REST API to expose most of functionality of an existing Java API. Both APIs are for internal use within my organization; I do not have to design for external use. I have influence ...
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The best way to implement authorization for a REST API
We develop social-based applications for mobile. Every application consumes RESTful API web-services. When I implement login I usually store the username and password somewhere on device. Then I send ...
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PHP Framework for RESTful Web Service
I have been going round in circles with this question for days - which is the best PHP framework to use to create a RESTful Web service?
I've trawled the web for info and have come across three main ...
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Versioned Resources to Improve Cacheability
Here's an API concept which could be useful for performance optimisation. It's an example of key-based cache expiry applied to a broader internet-wide context instead of the internal Memcached-style ...
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Represent actions(verbs) in REST URI
I have a print operation to perform for my customer documents.
I need the other standard operations to be performed as well, like add,update, delete.
so, I have following:
For creating new ...
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Is this “anti-pattern” and should I stop using it or is this clever design?
I've basically stared to do the following when creating a REST service:
HTML is requested
service returns the desired web page but without the requested "resource", eg. data
web page contains ...
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When are RPC-ish approaches more appropriate than REST?
After watching this talk on REST, Reuse and Serendipity by Steve Vinoski, I wonder if there are business cases in greenfield projects for (XML-)RPC-ish setups, that REST could not solve in a better ...
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1answer
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REST efficiency on count and sum methods
For example, if I have a Customer Transactions Table and I create a REST for it. The fields are: date, description, and total_amount.
I am trying to figure out which one is much more efficient when ...
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How to do external API testing (blackbox)
Assume you are using APIs from a vendor, how to make sure their API is working as expected?
My main concern is sometimes the vendor pushed the changes to their code and break the API, we want to have ...
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1answer
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Tomcat 7 vs. ehCache Standalone Server (Glassfish) Configuration with RESTful Web Services
My requirements consist of using ehCache to send and store data via RESTful web service calls. The data can be stored in-memory or via the filesystem...
Never used ehCache before so I am having some ...
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What is the right HTTP method for upvoting?
From a RESTful point of view, what is the most appropriate HTTP method for the action of upvoting a forum post (like on StackExchange)?
I would say POST for voting and DELETE for canceling vote, but ...
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Allowing client to select data to return via REST interface
I have a rest service that is essentially a proxy to a variety of other services. So if I call
GET /users/{id}
It will get their user profile, as well as order history, and contact info, etc... all ...
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Rest Design concerning user login
To be as restful as possible, is a user login better designed using a GET or a POST on a REST webservice? And why?
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REST Framework - MS Web Api vs the rest of the field [closed]
I am a .NET developer who is looking into the OSS world for a REST framework similar to Microsoft's Web Api. I'll be starting a personal project soon and need to develop both a web site and an API ...
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Standard -server to server- and -browser to server- authentication method
I have server with some resources; until now all these resources were requested through a browser by a human user, and the authentication was made with an username/password method, that generates a ...
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REST API wrapper - class design for 'lite' object responses
I am writing a class library to serve as a managed .NET wrapper over a REST API. I'm very new to OOP, and this task is an ideal opportunity for me to learn some OOP concepts in a real-life situation ...
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How should I handle a redirect to an identity provider during a web api data request
Scenario
I have a single-page web app consisting purely of html, css, and javascript. After initial load and during use, it updates various views with data from one or more RESTful apis via ajax ...
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REST API rule about tunneling
Just read this in the REST API Rulebook: GET and POST must not be used to tunnel other request methods.
Tunneling refers to any abuse of HTTP that masks or misrepresents a message’s intent and ...
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Is it reasonable for REST resources to be singular and plural?
I have been wondering if, rather than a more traditional layout like this:
api/Products
GET // gets product(s) by id
PUT // updates product(s) by id
DELETE // deletes (product(s) by id
POST // ...
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Proper response for a REST insert - full new record, or just the record id value?
I'm building a REST API which allows inserts (POST, not idempotent) and updates (PUT, idempotent) requests to add/update database to our application.
I'm wondering if there are any standards or best ...
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Using a random string to authenticate HMAC?
I am designing a simple webservice and want to use HMAC for authentication to the service.
For the purpose of this question we have:
a web service at example.com
a secret key shared between a user ...
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What is the need for 'discoverability' in a REST API when the clients are not advanced enough to make use of it anyway?
The various talks I have watched and tutorials I scanned on REST seem to stress something called 'discoverability'. To my limited understanding, the term seems to mean that a client should be able to ...
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Should HTTP Verbs Be Used Semantically?
If I'm making a web application which integrates with a server-side backend, would it be considered best practice to use HTTP methods semantically? That is, for example, if I'm fetching data (e.g., to ...
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How to structure a set of RESTful URLs
Kind of a REST lightweight here... Wondering which url scheme is more appropriate for a stock market data app (BTW, all queries will be GETs as the client doesn't modify data):
Scheme 1 examples:
...
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Do server-side sessions violate REST?
According to Roy Fielding (one of the principle authors of the HTTP specification) in his seminal thesis Architectural Styles when discussing REST, he mentions:
[E]ach request from client to ...
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Why is nesting or piggybacking errors within errors bad in general?
Why is nesting or piggybacking errors within errors bad in general?
To me it seems bad intuitively, but I'm suspicious in that I cannot adequately articulate why it is bad. This may be because it is ...
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Is there a standard for machine-readable descriptions of RESTful services?
I've interacted with a few RESTful APIs that provided excellent documentation for humans and descriptive URIs, but none of them seem to return machine-readable descriptions of themselves.
It's not ...
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How should an API use http basic authentication
When an API requires that a client authenticates to it, i've seen two different scenarios used and I am wondering which case I should use for my situation.
Example 1. An API is offered by a company ...
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API Auth vs User Auth
I have read many posts and articles on this topic but still cant connect the dots. I want to make a Rails app that is strictly a JSON API maybe using Sinatra or the rails-api gem. I also want to make ...
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Should I use both WCF and ASP.NET Web API
We already have a WCF API with basichttpbinding.
Some of the calls have complex objects in both the response and request.
We need to add RESTful abilities to the API.
at first I tried adding a ...
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Cross language remoting and serialisation [closed]
I need to create add network communication to a server written in the Java that will be connected to through a C# application.
I have very little experience in networking and I'm struggling to decide ...
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Wrapping REST based Web Service
I am designing a system that will be running online under Microsoft Windows Azure. One component is a REST based web service which will really be a wrapper (using proxy pattern) which calls the REST ...
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How to achieve a loosely coupled REST API but with a defined and well understood contract?
I am new to REST and am struggling to understand how one would properly design a REST system to both allow for loose coupling but at the same time allow a consumer of a REST API to understand the API. ...
