Is there a way to implement exponential backoff on a pure REST API? You’d have to keep track of some state (e.g. IP Address, account), no?
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Is there a way to implement exponential backoff on a pure REST API? You’d have to keep track of some state (e.g. IP Address, account), no?
It is the client’s responsibility to implement a backoff policy, as far as I am concerned. Otherwise, as you said, some sort of state must be maintained, such as checking a cookie, request token, etc.
Now, by that definition, many REST APIs are not pure since they take request tokens as parameters and may restrict the number of calls per hour or day, but that is the tradeoff.