Invoke-RestMethod natively understands the output a REST API method returns, which is typically JSON. When the API does return JSON, Invoke-RestMethod will parse the JSON and return useful PowerShell ...

RESTful services are stateless, client-server based, cacheable and leverage resources. These resources have a common interface and are uniquely addressable using URIs. In this post, I’ll present ...

To see this in action, we need to find a Web API that we can use readily. In this example, we will be using JSON Placeholder.This is a free REST API specifically for testing and prototyping, which ...

The first step in using a RESTful API is to find which one you’d like to use. A Google search is usually a good starting point, and a quick search for “free weather API” led me to Open ...

A RESTful API should conform as much as possible to the six REST constraints. It certainly should not violate them. A problem that developers and architects often encounter with RESTful APIs is that ...

While SOAP-based web services form the backbone of most legacy web service implementations, RESTful APIs have become the de facto standard for cloud-native microservices development. In this ...