Representational state transfer, or REST, is an architectural style for networking software to transfer information through the web.
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WebApp + REST - Architecture Approach
I've been working on a big Java project that requires the following:
One Web Application.
One REST API that exposes the same data the web app consumes which will be required for those that don't get ...
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Advantage of Spring Rest Web Services over Servlet [on hold]
What are the advantages of using Spring Rest Web Services over Core Servlet? As we know Spring Rest Web Services also use Servlet internally.
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Multitier architecture using API
I have been reading a number of posts and I am leaning towards building an SOA.
My main dependencies are:
Need to support multiple clients
Need individual client environments to not effect other ...
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Application Design (Part1) [on hold]
I need to develop applications to accomplish the following:
Client (Android/Blackberry/iPhone/Windows phone) will automate the process of submitting data to server
Server will automate the process ...
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DTO - service layer - statelessness best practices interfering with each other
I am designing a REST API coupled with a service layer that takes DTOs as input and produces them as output. This works fine for most service calls where the DTO is used to access an underlying ...
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Is OAuth suitable for this scenario?
I need to create a simple web application for track expenses, with some basic actions (user must be able to create an account and log in, list expenses, edit them, etc) with a REST API for each one, ...
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how to use '&' in URL Params for Rest Service Method [migrated]
I am using postman extension in chrome as RestClient.
My service url is as follows
http://localhost:22/myserv.svc/InsertData?Id=1223&OffcName=my office&pid=2234
this is saving correct in ...
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Nested objects in REST
I have simple set of resources, not more than 10 types, with some one-to-many relationships.
For example
An order has many entries
An entry has many comments
A machine can have multiple entries ...
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How to structure REST api service that accepts POST parameters in the body
Everything I've read says to pass parameters to a REST service in the URI, whether by template, or query string:
https://www.myapp/my/login/api/authenticate/ganders/mypassword
or
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REST API Structure
I have a REST API that looks something like the below where a person can belong to an organisation (but doesn't have to) and a person has many items. The items may also belong to the organisation ...
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What is the argument for singular nouns in RESTful API resource naming?
I understand that when naming RESTful URI's it is commonly accepted to use plurals to represent collections of resources. I am curious as to the argument for using singular nouns instead.
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Making a Wordpress site into a Web App using a Third-Party BaaS [migrated]
I would like to use a BaaS service for my mobile apps. Parse.com seems like it will fit my needs, and it offers login (to Parse) through Facebook and other Social sites. The difficulty I am facing is ...
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Link relation values and REL attribute - edited
In REST, do we always use link relation values to convey semantics/role of a linked resource?
I assume link relation value is always specified using rel attribute?
Should rel attribute only be ...
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Access Token Verification
I have spent quite a few days reading up on Oauth and token based security measures for REST API's and I am currently looking at implementing an Oauth based authentication approach almost exactly like ...
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Doubts about several best practices for rest api + service layer
I'm going to be starting a project soon that exposes a restful api for business intelligence. It may not be limited to a restful api, so I plan to delegate requests to a service layer that then ...
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ASP.NET MVC WebService - Security for Industrial Android Clients [closed]
I'm trying to design a system that will allow a bunch of Android devices to securely log into an ASP.NET MVC REST Web service.
At present neither side are implemented. However there is an ASP.NET ...
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What exactly are Link Relation Values?
From REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture:
For computer-to-computer interactions, we advertise protocol
information by embedding links in representations, much as we do with
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Quite confused about what constitutes Current state of a resource
From REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture:
The current state of a resource is a combination of:
The values of information items belonging to that resource
Links to ...
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POST and PUT requests – is it just the convention?
I've read quite a few articles on the difference between POST and PUT and in when the two should be used. But there are still few things confusing me ( hopefully questions will make some sense ):
1) ...
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REST Service and CQRS
I am struggling with architecture on a new project. I am using the following patterns/technology.
CQRS - anything going in goes through a command
REST - using WebAPI
MVC - asp.net mvc
Angular - ...
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URIs and Resource vs Resource representation
URL is an URI which identifies a resource by location.
Resource representation is a view of resource's state. This view is encoded in one or more transferable formats, such as XHTML, Atom, XML, MP3 ...
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Is it RESTful to resume terminated POST operation on a GET request?
I have a RESTful API, one of the resource has a state that is determined collectively by multiple servers, not all of them belong to us. One of the operation on this resource will have to modify the ...
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Is is OK to use a non-primary key as the id in a rails resource?
I am getting ready to set up a resource for some new api calls to my rails application.
I am planning on calling the resource devices ie
resources :devices
This is going to represent android ...
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Should REST APIs be context independent or dependent?
Let's say I have several users and each one has a user_id and also friends
To access their friends, they should be logged in, so a session will be established with the server.
Should the REST API ...
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URI Representing a Single Resource with Two Possible Identifiers
I have a resource that can be represented in one of two ways:
Big Serial Number, or
Small Serial Number
Is it closer adherence to REST principles to:
A: have a query string specify the type ...
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Why was REST web srevice named REST?
What does the word Representational State Transfer (REST) mean actually ? Now I don seem to find any relation between its naming and its working, I have understood that it is a architectural style for ...
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C++ Web Development for REST API [closed]
I've been a C# developer for long time, focused on ASP MVC the most. Two years ago, basiclly due to the lower costs and ease of deployment/management I began to migrate my projects to linux using ...
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RESTful composition/inclusion of other resources
I have a few HTTP resources, and i'm wondering if including the models of one in the other is acceptable or if there is a cleaner method.
In this example, we have a ton of "news" resources, and users ...
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A RESTful way to verify server state [closed]
I'm interested in building verifications into a REST service to help with service monitoring.
For example, one could run assertions like ...
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Should a REST interface include the query ID as part of the response?
I am currently working an Android app that receives most of the displayed data from a REST interface.
First, I request the information for a company the request includes a list of store IDs. With ...
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How to handle exception in REST API
Given a REST API, which throws an exception when handling a request from a client. Whenever the REST API throws an exception, it's logged and the application (in this case a console application) ...
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How to provide a service with RESTful API?
Generally speaking, RESTful API's are very good for representing resources and collections of resources.
http://example.com/resources
http://example.com/resources/item17
And we are good, if we ...
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Charts, SQL and REST?
We have created a REST API for a voting game. Now we are jumping into creating analytics/graphs/charts for moderators and users to watch how are they doing in the game.
The game has a certain group ...
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REST object with resources
I am designing a HTTP-based REST API.
Let's say I have an entity called Entity that has a bunch of properties. Some of its properties are files. Let's say Entity has following properties:
name: ...
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RESTful API resource path for resource with complex relationship?
In my RESTful API, I have Users, Applications, and Tokens. An application has an owner, which is a user. A token is linked to both an application, and a user.
A user has both public and private ...
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What does HATEOAS offer for discoverability and decoupling besides ability to change your URL structure more or less freely?
Lately I've been reading about Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOAS), the constraint that is claimed to make a web API "truly RESTful". It boils down to basically including links ...
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RESTful API Call Method Names, C# [closed]
I am working on some old code that works with a REST api in c#.
The method names (what method to invoke on the API side) is being passed in as hard-coded strings.
Would a static class be the best ...
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How should one handle accessing a 'local' API?
I'm currently writing a project that is using a few separate virtual machines for the database, API and front-end website (currently 1 of each). I'm writing my code in PHP, and all of these virtual ...
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Strategy for Website Talking to API on Same Server
I have a RESTful API that allows retrieval of data through requests such as GET http://example.com/users/id/1 (Coded following this tutorial).
The code igniter controller looks like this:
class ...
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Schemaless NoSQL RESTful design?
In a recent project; I used MongoDB with MongoEngine (an ORM/ODM for Python).
This allowed me to specify schema in a central "Model".
My new project I am hosting on Windows Azure; and there is no ...
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Should an API be aware of client versions?
Should an API be aware of a client version?
The idea of that really goes against the grain for me, but it seems like it is being pushed for in my current project.
Am I wrong? Can I get some reasons ...
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How do searches fit into a RESTful interface?
When designing a RESTful interface, the semantics of the request types are deemed vital to the design.
GET - List collection or retrieve element
PUT - Replace collection or element
POST - Create ...
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How to indicate to a web server the language of a resource
I'm writing an HTTP API to a publishing server, and I want resources with representations in multiple languages. A user whose client GETs a resource which has Korean, Japanese and Trad. Chinese ...
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how should I change the representation (not mimetype) of a resource?
I'm looking at how I can change the representation of a payload at runtime for varied potential advantages, but I'm not sure how to do it. Specifically collections.
Array of Pairs
[{ ...
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How to translate SQL query into REST API requests?
Let's say I have a machine-readable description (such as in WADL, Swagger or RAML) of a REST API that provides interface to a database.
My users submit queries about underlying database in form of ...
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What is the best pattern for adding an existing item to a collection in REST API?
I'm designing a pragmatic REST API and I'm a little stuck on how best to add existing entities to a collection. My domain model includes a Project that has a collection of Sites. This is a strict ...
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How to support different API Versions
I am writing a Rest API and am wondering how best to handle supporting the different versions. By this I don't mean how to define a URI as V2 or V3, but rather how to structure the code given that ...
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Decoupling Server and Client using REST API
I was thinking about how I can decouple a web-application completely into a server-side and a client-side component. I want to decouple the app to the extent that I can host both components on ...
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How to have my callbacks authenticated in a REST app?
I'm developing a REST application and I allow my clients to authenticate in several ways (typically using Authorization: Token ... as in OAuth 2.0, but also there's session-based auth option for the ...
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RESTful API development : is it web developer's work or software developer's work? [closed]
First of all, I am sorry that the issue I'm going to say is not about a technical thing.
I'm just confused.
I am trying applying to several companies as a software engineer.
The latest work that I ...
