Let’s look at a good example of a PATCH request. Imagine you have a model named Customer and not all of its members are editable. ASP.NET Web API incorporates nice support for HTTP PATCH ...

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 ...

Only the start. The result is a powerful little tool that can quickly scratch an itch. The ability to reach out into any API is significant, as is the support for a range of different input types.

Idempotent RESTful API design. One of the challenges with the development of idempotent RESTful APIs is that there is no mechanism on the server to enforce an operation's safety or idempotence. A ...

The Cisco ASA Firewall added a REST API back in December with the 9.3(2) code release. I’ve asked Mason Harris from Cisco to write up a quick how-to primer on the ASA API capabilities.