REpresentational State Transfer
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“Unbiased” recommendation on scalable architecture for real time application [closed]
I've been flipping between a few language/platform combinations trying to determine the best platform combination for a scalable system, that can handle real time application communications.
The goal ...
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Creating an entity relationship in REST: May I create the parent by posting to a child id?
We are currently designing a REST API to access classical customer data.
One of the elements in the API are the assets of an user. The assets are added under a given service. The backend API will ...
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Is this solution RESTful and secure?
Our product registers new players on our service, and we've chosen to host it on Azure (we're using .NET) and we wanted it to be stateless (for scalability) and relatively secure.
Since this is the ...
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Custom functions in a REST API
Looking at two of our entities Company and Address. A company has a billingAddress and a profileAddress.
I'm unsure of how to implement a function to set the billing address versus the profile. Here ...
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REST vs RPC for mobile development
As many know, mobile development is skyrocketing these days and, I believe, it affects what we code. To be specific, I am interested in developing web services for a mobile application.
I see two ...
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Changed & Improved passing data from WebServlet to a WebService [migrated]
I'm pretty new to writing Servlet and REST Services, but now i'm at a problem that I'm not sure if i'm doing it correctly. My Service look like this:
@POST
@Produces ("application/json")
@Path ...
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Is MVC the optimal pattern to build a RESTful web service?
Not being a Java practitioner, I recently came to learn about the JAX-RS specification and Apache CXF framework. While still wrapping my head around all these things, I also read the this question on ...
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How to properly design REST [duplicate]
I intensively work with REST architecture about last year. And I don't stop a wonder how REST is inflexible or may I can't understand how to properly use it.
So I use REST services on my backend and ...
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RESTful URI's, Creating a new noun/uri or add a queryparameter
I have a Person class with a one to many relationship to Employment. A Person in the CRM can have multiple Employments (historic data).
My current REST URI for this class looks like this:
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How to decide the token expiry time in REST web service
I am working on creating a REST ws exposing few API's. A token is required for each API call. I am confused about the expiry time to be set for the token.
Security+Performance wise what is the ideal ...
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Are there any problems with implementing custom HTTP methods?
We have a URL in the following format
/instance/{instanceType}/{instanceId}
You can call it with the standard HTTP methods: POST, GET, DELETE, PUT. However, there are a few more actions that we ...
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Custom use of Authorization header in a REST API
I'm building a REST api where clients are authenticated using client certificates. A client in this case is not an individual user, but some sort of a presentation layer. Users are authenticated using ...
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Best practice for handling asynchronous inter communication?
Recently completed a project for handling credit card processing. One of the difficulties I faced was handling the delay / possible failure of notification messages. The most complex example was:
an ...
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How can I unit-test my REST web service?
I am new to unit testing, I've one REST web method that just calls DB and populates a DTO. Pseudo code is
public object GetCustomer(int id)
{
CustomerDTO objCust = //get from DB
return objCust;
}
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Is it OK to partially change a collection with PUT or DELETE?
I have a collection of products in a product group e.g.:
product-groups/123/products
If I need to add to the collection, is it OK that I pass only some products with PUT?
If I need to delete some ...
