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 ...
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What endpoints should I provide, if any, to permit connectivity testing for my web services?
What endpoints should I provide, if any, to permit connectivity / availability testing for my web services / Web API?
TL;DR
I am developing both the server and client in an enterprise environment. ...
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Can REST API be used as business layer?
I am using PHP Codeigniter MVC design pattern
and I had this project with some sort of specific business processes
In my application I will be dealing with 2 existing REST APIs:
Google
Trello
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Which is simpler for REST client call to return JSON - JQuery/JavaScript or Spring RestTemplate?
I've been trying to hack up an annotated Spring MVC web app (have some experience with Spring but also rusty and not a super programmer) but it's proving pretty hard to call a URL of my web app which ...
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Testing a REST client against a REST Server. How to do fixtures?
When writing unit tests, it's common to use fixtures: little testable data, so we can say:
1. Get all clients should include Willy Wonka.
2. Delete client 3, and now get clients should not include ...
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How to achieve N-Tier type in Codeigniter MVC
I know that N-Tier intended to separate layers on different network
but I would like to have the same code separation in codeigniter
I got this idea to have
Model : for database CRUD - > Data layer
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Managing Alerts in Web Application Using RESTful API
I have designed a RESTful API and I am now working on creating a web application to use the service.
One thing I am struggling with is how to manage alerts in the web application (similar to the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
