REST

REST

1. REpresentational State Transfer

2. Architectural style

   • Standard for computer communications
   • Client server separation
     • Changes not affect client side
     • Flexibility across platforms
   • Statelessess
     • Understand any message
     • Standard operations

3. Communication

   • Requests
     • HTTP verbs
       • GET
       • POST
       • PUT
       • DELETE
     • Herders
     • Paths
       • Adresses to resource
         • /path/path
   • Responses
     • Headers
     • Codes
       • 200 OK
       • 201 CREATED
       • 204 NOT CONTENT
       • 404 NOT FOUND
       • 400 BAD REQUEST
       • 403 FORBIDDEN
       • 500 SERVER ERROR
   • JSON