What are the main patterns and/or attributes that make an application RESTful?
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What are the main patterns and/or attributes that make an application RESTful?
Doing things RESTfully is actually hard.
At the end of the day, the big attributes are:
1 – URIs represent resources, not actions
2 – HTTP verbs describe what action to take
ie:
GETing http://www.example.com/something/1 will return the something identified by 1
POSTing http://www.example.com/something/1 will update it
PUTing http://www.example.com/something will create a new something
3 – The responses to things like GET requests should document other places the client can go.
If a client asks for http://www.example.com/movies/1 (via GET), the response should contain elements that point the client to things related. Like http://www.examples.com/review/movie/1 (which might list reviews of movie #1
This is really rough — spend a day googling around and reading. Then try to figure out who’s really talking about REST, and who’s confusing it with basic RPC stuff with simplified URL schemes.