Reading-Notes

Class 08 Summary:

REST

• REST (Representational state transfer) : architectural software for styling web.used to create interactive application. it is independent of any protocol.

• REST APIs are designed around a resources (object, data or service).

• Identifier which the resource has is a unique URL that identifies the resource.

  example : HTTP “(https://adventure-works.com/orders/1)”

• HTTPverbs:
  1. POST (create)
  2. GET (read)
  3. PUT (update/replace)
  4. PATCH(update/modify)
  5. DELETE(delete)

• URL (Uniform Resource Identifier) : sequence of characters that identifies resource . based standards on resource(nouns ) and the operation of the resource (not verbs).

• example of Good URL : https://adventure-works.com/orders

• ‘Chatty’ web API : if designed the wrong resources for clients . and it is bad thing to make large number of small resources.

• Successful Get request return : HTTP code 200 (ok).

• Unsuccessful Get request return : HTTP code 400 (not found).

• Successful POST request return : HTTP code 201 (created). code 204 (no content).

• Successful DELETE request return : HTTP code 204 (accepted) . code 404 (not found).

---

• sources:

source 1