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Yes. As a hacker who leans on books, blogs, and well-defined principles, RESTful api design resources have often been much more http RPC oriented. Hackers sho
by tom_b 12y ago
Yes. As a hacker who leans on books, blogs, and well-defined principles, RESTful api design resources have often been much more http RPC oriented.
Hackers should pay attention to:
http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...
I have also found collection+json and hypermedia application language (HAL) to be useful.
Plus, I have spent a bunch of time reading the Restful Web APIs book from O'Reilly. Useful for me, as a relative newbie, in providing some logical foundation to start from . . .
- EdwardDiego 12y agoDo you have an example of an API that meet's Fielding's definition of REST?
- tom_b 12y agotl;dr: Not that I've dug into. I've found a number of people who point at the Github api as a good example of a RESTful api that includes hypermedia links for clients to follow rather than constructing URI requests manually. It looks good to me.
- jessaustin 12y agohttp://roy.gbiv.. http://roy.gbiv... Money quote: REST is intended for long-lived network-based applications that span multiple organizations. If you don’t see a need for the constraints, then don’t use them. That’s fine with me as long as you don’t call the result a REST API.