Representational State Transfer, or REST, is an architectural style for networking software to transfer information through the web.
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ROA on top of SOA
I already have a stable Service Oriented Architecture for my application which exposes services as API calls. (the verbs)
Now, I need to build a Resource Oriented Architecture to expose a RESTful API ...
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RESTful applications logic and cross resource operations
I have an RESTful api that allows my users to receive enquiries about their business e.g. 'I would like to book service x on date y. Is this available?'. The api saves this information as a resource ...
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When does SOAP make more sense than REST?
From my understanding of REST, the implicit assumption is that all operations are CRUD operations. Sometimes, you are not doing CRUD operations and are doing some more complex logic. In this case, is ...
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how to integration dynamic web fields and forms
I'm trying to find a way to design backend that will be handling customized web forms creation on the fly. Once created those forms will be injected to part of the existing web pages.
I've created ...
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Load Testing of Ruby Rest Client [closed]
I'm developing a REST client which is responsible for posting large numbers of notifications to various urls. It's fully unit-tested, now I want to do some load testing.
One option seems to be to ...
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When did the first “REST”-model and friendly URL web technology come to be?
Everyone knows that the "current" way to do things is to have user-readable URLs. Like:
http://example.com/blog/edit/1234
Rather than:
http://example.com/blog.php?action=edit&id=1234
When ...
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Should I provide client libraries in some select languages along with the APIs themselves?
Say I have created a web service based on RESTful APIs. Does it make sense to also provide users with a client library for the API in some select languages which are likely to be the most used ones? ...
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SharePoint + InfoPath Joins
I am trying to do something somewhat unique, and the best path I can find at the moment is to use List joins, but I'm not sure this is possible. I'm hoping someone can suggest a best course of ...
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RESTful API design. What should I return if there are no rows?
I'm currently coding an API for a social network with the Slim Framework. My question is: What are the best practices when there are no rows to return in the json structure?
Lets say that this call ...
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What does it mean for an architectural style to be document-centric?
I heard it said that REST is "document-centric". Unclear what this meant, I began poking around and found the term document-oriented being used of databases, particularly NoSQL databases, and in ...
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How can I send data without POSTFIELDS in PHP curl?
I'm using a REST API through PHP and I'm a bit confused on the CURL_POSTFIELDS behavior, which implies that I must send a querystring or array, but what I'm seeking to do is just to send a string of ...
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Software Architecture Modelling
I am a little confused at how best to visually model a space-based architecture (SBA) for presenting the system/software architecture design to a client.
The goal of this modelling is to show:
The ...
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How to get different resources in a single endpoint in RESTful?
I have a REST webservice that have a couple of resources, like Company and User. But now I need to make a modification to the API to return a special list combining company, user and maybe other type ...
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Disagreement Concerning Data Integration (I may not understand enterprise ETL tools)
I have been in an ongoing conversation concerning a project we are about to undertake at my place at work. The project concerns data integration. Our customers want to be able to integrate our data ...
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REST API internal directory structure and RewriteEngine
I'm building a REST API. I don't want to have real folders in my directory structure, but I'm not quite sure what to use else. My REST API uses paths like this:
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Building Website with JAX-RS (Jersey)
Is it discouraged/not-common to build Websites (not web-services!) using Jersey or any other JAX-RS implementation ?
I didn't find any guide/tutorial/article regarding that..
At first impression , ...
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Is RESTful API appropriate for services which are nearly computational in nature?
Is RESTful API appropriate for the following scenario?
A time-limited token is obtained, which will last for one minute only
Image is uploaded to a server
Server performs some CPU-heavy image ...
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How to be robust against webservice downtime caused by third parties
I'm using iPage as my cloud based server provider. I haven't had any problems with them yet. They hold the scripts for my RESTful services for the mobile app I'm developing. My problem however is ...
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Implementing a claims-based security model to secure a WCF service
Currently, all of our web applications (and the WCF services they interact with) are run internally. Nothing is exposed to the web. We want to open up our web applications to the Internet and will ...
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How to build a highly scalable REST web service? [closed]
Here's an example of what I'm trying to accomplish, which is a public url-based youtube to animate gif conversion service. (ex. http://a.com/youtubevideourl/out.gif) I'm not sure as to what specific ...
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Recommendations on what technology to use to call REST API [closed]
I'm creating a small web-site that needs to call a REST API to retrieve some JSON and display it. What is the best tool for this job?
There are so many Javascript libraries available now it is ...
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How to handle many arguments in an API wrapper?
I'm writing a PHP API wrapper for a third party API. I want to make all the methods consistent, but I'm not sure how to handle the number of arguments some API routes accept. One API request accepts ...
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Versioning an API
I'm starting a side project, the first stage will be a building a web application with MVC, in later stages we will be adding clients for mobile platforms. My thought was to create one API that all of ...
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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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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 ...
