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Readings: APIs

  • What does REST stand for?

Representational State Transfer .

  • REST APIs are designed around a —- ?

REST APIs are designed around resources, which are any kind of object, data, or service that can be accessed by the client.

  • What is an identifer of a resource? Give an example.

A resource has an identifier, which is a URI that uniquely identifies that resource. For example, the URI for a particular customer order might be: https://adventure-works.com/orders/1

  • What are the most common HTTP verbs?

The most common operations are

  • GET.
  • POST.
  • PUT.
  • PATCH.

  • DELETE.

  • What should the URIs be based on?**

should be based on nouns (the resource) and not verbs .

  • Give an example of a good URI.

https://adventure-works.com/orders

  • What does it mean to have achatty web API? Is this a good or a bad thing?

that is sending small requests and It is a bad it cuses a large number of small resources.

  • What status code does a successful GET request return?

HTTP status code 200 (OK).

  • What status code does an unsuccessful GET request return?

404 (Not Found).

  • What status code does a successful POST request return?

HTTP status code 201 (Created).

  • What status code does a successful DELETE request return?

HTTP status code 204

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