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Representational state transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer

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Web API Best Practice for Deep Object Routes

When designing a RESTful API with ASP.NET Web API, I can create several routes to retrieve the same data. But should I? Is it considered helpful or confusing? For example, if I have an object relationship of Parent > Child > Item, I could…
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What status code should I response with when there is no data found in my database

I am wondering what status code would I response with in my else statement from the code below: if (album) { res.status(200).json({error: false, data: {channel_id: album.attributes.channel_id, id: album.id}}); } else { …
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REST - Getting specific property of resources in collection only

I'm developing the search functionality of my REST API and currently URI's structured as: api/items?type=egg,potato Let's say each item resource has 4 properties: Id, Name, Type, Rating What would be the most restful way to design my URI and…
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RESTful API - URI Structure Advice

I have REST API URL structure similar to: /api/contacts GET Returns an array of contacts /api/contacts/:id GET Returns the contact with id of :id /api/contacts POST Adds a new…
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RESTful API subtype in URL, body or header?

I'm somewhat confused about which RESTful design is better. For the API I have three types; Question, Answer and Student. The Question type has two subtypes; MultipleChoice and Open. The Question type will possibly have more subtypes in the future.…
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Java - Better way to parse a RESTful resource URL

I'm new to developing web services in Java (previously I've done them in PHP and Ruby). I'm writing a resource that is of the following format: /myService/// As you can see, I've got a three-level resource…
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REST Security Design good practice when exposing resources ID

On a REST based system what are the options to "encrypt" resources ID. For instance: /client/2 would be accessible at /client/SOMEHASHKEY I am thinking : 1 - Have DB tables that keeps track of a resource ID and it's corresponding HASH and look…
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Does Symfony2 handle restful url properly and should I use restful url?

I'm trying to figure what is the best way to design my urls. So here is what I have done so far: account_index: pattern: /Accounts/ defaults: { _controller: "CoreBundle:Account:index" } requirements: { _method: get } account_create: …
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How to get IIS6 to recognize pathinfo routes instead of returning "404 Undescribed" error?

I am developing a RESTful web application in PHP. What I have got is: on the test server, Windows 7 / Apache 2.2 / PHP 5.2.9 (mod_php) on the production server, Windows Server 2003 / IIS6 / PHP 5.2.4 (php5isapi.dll) While the test environment has…
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Consuming RESTful pagination information from Link header RFC8288

I am interfacing with Shopify and they use RESTful API. When I request a resource that returns an array of items, they use RFC8288 pagination format. For example, https://example.com/api/inventory_levels.json?limit=10 returns 10 entities along with…
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Receiving parameters with APIView

I have this routing: url(r'^article/(?P\d+)/', views.ArticleList.as_view()) which leads to this function: class RSSList(APIView): def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs): article_id = kwargs.get('article_id') But when I…
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RESTful design of convert, calculate

How to design operations like: calculate convert translate For example: convert from "EUR" to "CNY" amount "100". Is this /convert?from=EUR&to=CNY&amount=100 RESTful ?
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API Access to Tesco personal purchases in store

Is there a programmatic (read Pythonic and/or RESTful) way to access Tesco Clubcard personal history and/or through a unique receipt token, for in store purchases? It doesn't seem so from this thread on Tesco Labs and TESCO API Documentation
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Jersey log all response times for services

I have a Java application and I want to log all execution times for each REST service. How to measure execution time for each request? How the filter will be configured?
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Using a sub-resource or not?

Let's take the following example: We want to expose company and employee information from a RESTful API. Company data should be quite simply: GET api/v1/companies GET api/v1/companies/{id} Employees BELONG to a company, but we still want to…
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