Flexible RESTful API design. So, we have seen in this RESTful APIs tutorial that the removal of the 10 oldest records from a database is a poor use of the DELETE method, and the incrementation of a ...

Let's start with a simple example. We'll need an existing REST API to work with. Browsing around on the Internet, I come across a REST API called Cat Facts. This API returns various facts about our ...

For example, if you have an API that contains data about music, ... A REST API must not define fixed resource names or hierarchies (an obvious coupling of client and server).

Any “RESTful” API manual suggests defining resources (entities), giving them names (nouns), using plural, creating URIs that suggest the relationships between entities, avoiding deep linking ...

In a previous article about important RESTful principles and how to create a beautiful RESTful API, I used the example of a web service that kept track of an ongoing, global score for an online ...