Questions tagged [rest]
Representational state transfer, or REST, is an architectural style for networking software to transfer information through the web.
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Authentication Mechanism for Third Part Apps
I have an WebAPI application which is consumed in our native apps. The implemented auth grant type is 'password'. It is working fine.
Currently we are creating a native library instead of native apps ...
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How to setup REST API in Codeigniter 3.0
I am creating the REST API using codeigniter. I downloaded this library and installed in my application. It works great! https://github.com/chriskacerguis/codeigniter-restserver
But I have an doubt. ...
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How to display linked third party sign in methods
I am writing an app. Like Google suggests, the user should be to be able to link multiple sign in methods to their account. In order to do that, the ideas of "identities" and "accounts" are separated ...
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Are REST Methods Which Return Dynamically Generated Random Data Safe
Is a REST method which returns dynamically generated random data each time that it is accessed considered safe?
According to RFC 2616 (emphasis mine):
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In particular, the convention has ...
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Persistent document caching framework caching not (only) in memory? [closed]
We plan to create a document cache service which stores the result of expensive document transformations in a persistent store and which works like Redis but not in memory since we expect several ...
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Incorporate a background job enqueue endpoint in a REST API
To exchange data between our standalone frontend application and the backend API, we currently have a REST API, with standard endpoint to list/create/update/destroy ressources with a consistent naming ...
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Building a rest api layer on top of a soap webservice
We want to build a rest api layer on top of a soap webservice.
Our current situation is that we have a coldfusion application that talks with the webservice, both running on different servers. The ...
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RESTful API - Adding nested resources as a query parameter?
I recently had thoughts on handling the flat vs nested architecture when designing a RESTful API.
Would there be anything wrong with having a system where your nested resources can be specified ...
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API with different kind of response for error
Let's focus on a single endpoint, which always returns an encoded JSON object with a well defined and documented structure.
But when an exception is thrown, the exception itself is formatted to a ...
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Url pattern for making a 'like' with a REST API
I have an API route as so:
GET /api/item/like
Which makes a like object between the logged in user and item object, and it works fine.
Is this the correct way to have a user 'like' an object? Or ...
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Command Waiting On Event Sourcing Micro-services
I'm very new to micro-services but am trying to learn, so apologies for any ignorance or incorrect information.
I have been looking at event-sourcing architecture for microservices and I have a ...
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Typescript, CRUD Applications, and the generation of resource identifiers
I am currently trying a create a fairly simple, declarative RESTful CRUD framework, whereby I can define a resource type, and have both the API endpoint created, as well as the the functions to Create/...
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How to handle a request to delete and post?
I am making an application in which there are 3 tables. A user can click a button to request to move an item from table 1 to table 2. Essentially, this means that an item is deleted from table 1 and ...
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How to handle many-to-many relationships with multiple incompatible relationship types in RESTful API?
Note this question is about when there are multiple relationship types. This is not the same as this question, where there is only a single member relationship.
Say we have persons and organizations. ...
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RESTful API Endpoints - Concrete vs OO versioning
I am looking at Versioning Micro Services solutions and got a little carried away with OO design. Using WebAPI, I got to the point where I can use OO design to choose the correct version to run with ...
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REST API - Standard for also creating required parent entities?
We're creating a new API to add new Jobs into a legacy system. The question deals with how to handle creating a Job's required parent entities when you don't know the IDs of those parent entities to ...
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REST Many To Many Design
Consider a web api exposing two kind of resources: Users and Teams with many-to-many relationship, typically a REST api will expose the following trivial endpoints to read data:
GET /users
GET /users/...
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Storing session state in browser's local storage
Stack Exchange has some bits of what seems to be session state -- for example, whether you want to see 15, 30, or 50 questions per page when you view a list of questions.
You can click on the button ...
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Pattern for for REST API who's response depends on behavior of requests to other services
Some one help me with my design paralysis!
Assume a microservice (probably going to be implemented in Spring Boot) that has implemented an run of the mill REST API, and after receiving an initial ...
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Client-side XHR request, which IP does the endpoint read?
Assume a Javascript plugin, for a developer, that's included on their website.
<script src="https://external.com/plugin.js"></script>
The plugin makes a XHR request to a 3rd party ...
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Design Restful API Get manipulated data from resource [closed]
I am new to rest, I have an entity called availableJobPositions. I want to get most Interesting job by sending a person skills. which url is good in restful:
api/positions/skill/most-intersting?...
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Should I put the messages for business logic validations in API?
I have a REST API written using ASP.NET Core Web API. There are a few business logic based messages I want to send to the clients from the API.
I am in a dilemma on which of the following ways I can ...
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Are different endpoints to display the same resource in different ways RESTful?
Say I have a Student who has a ID number, a name, a profile picture, some contact details, and is enrolled in several courses.
From the perspective of a Single Page Application there are different ...
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REST API Authentication: Cookie vs Web Storage
Note: This question might sound like a duplicate, but all other similar questions did not take into account (mobile apps, iot's, web, 3rd party usage). Specifically, in dealing with the clients ...
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What is the best practice for sending a large array of strings to an API
I'm building a simple app that is a client web application and an API behind it. I'm combining two third-party APIs, one needs to be called from my client application (for ease of authentication) and ...
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How to handle list arguments with invalid and valid elements
When you have an endpoint that can take a set of valid parameters, how do you do validation on a non-empty set of elements?
Say you have a request /api/endpoint?my_list=1,2,3 where 1, 2, 3 are the ...
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dealing with too many DTO / Java
We are building an pseudo-rest API (because no body cares/funds for a full blown rest API for internal use - which is OK).
So we have elements of Rest API (links for resources, API naming conventions ...
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Determining response codes from void functions OOP
I am trying to create a Put endpoint using rest. Let's say that under the link
/addresses/12345
I am trying to add a new address (if that id doesn't exist) or I'm trying to update it if it does ...
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REST-like HTTP POST request with JSON
I am coding a poof-of-concept throw-away GCC plugin (see this for more context) which would use the HTTP 1.1 protocol to interact with my Bismon (GPLv3+ code on github, but unreleased; draft technical ...
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Implementing http patch using less number of possible cases
Maybe this is stupid question but if I implement http patch, is there no good way to reduce the number of possible cases without exploding into a large number (2^n) of different cases depending on ...
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How to create useful error messages in a JSON REST API without leaking implementation details across layers?
We're implementing a REST service with three main layers: Controller, Domain, Repository.
The REST API is supposed to respond to error conditions with meaningful error messages. Suppose the general ...
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track user actions on UI and store them in the database
I have the web application that provides user with the interface to edit its character. When user makes some changes and saves them, I store it as delta in MongoDB. UI and backend communicate via REST....
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OAuth2 - client_credentials
I am in the process of building out a private REST API. This API is intended for machine to machine communication. In short someone else's server will kick off a job via CRON that pulls information ...
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Microservices design: Sharing and populating data
I'm developing a microservices based application and having trouble to understand how api calls should be organized between microservices ...
Suppose my application is a products management ...
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How to structure files for API versioning?
My first time trying to implement API versioning here, and I need some guidelines on how to do it...
I know there are many ways of doing API versioning.
I'm already decided on doing it by uri (i.e, ...
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Affecting the behaviour of a REST API POST
I have an API that has a POST method to create a new Product. The creation of the new Product is handled by POSTing to a ProductService. Now I want to be able to instruct the API when creating the new ...
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Generate HTTP RESTful server from database schema
Today the job of most Java-based servers is to translate HTTP requests into SQL commands/queries and send a JSON-ed response back to the client. That's a pretty generic (and honestly boring) job.
I ...
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How to implement a partial resource rest api?
I first posted this question on stackoverflow but I think, it as more it's place here.
In order to limit the size of my REST API answers, I want to implement the Google performance tip: using the ...
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Why should I use REST API?
I somehow get the point of REST API, like for example you want to get the list of customers to the database server, you have to request a GET method and the server will throw a response with a ...
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Is it a bad thing to delegate a callout to an external system, given that my current one can't do it?
Custom code written for the Salesforce platform is incapable of making a PATCH request to an external server (PUT and POST are okay though), and I need to make a PATCH request to an external service (...
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how to expose complex actions in RESTApi using http verbs
consider the following REST resource Account
{
number:"number-000",
name: "name",
customer : {},
type : {},
status : "status",
balance : 0,
rating : 0.0
}
Now say we have the ...
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Best way to make insert data in logs web API. REST or WebSockets
I want to make a centralized log web API, so it will have a large amount of data per seconds. the logs will comming from others WEB API
I was thinking if i make the REST API, all of the POST made ...
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Proper HTTP method for triggering a process [duplicate]
I have a question regarding HTTP methods and what would be most proper in terms of conforming to REST principles.
I have two services, A and B. When new data is added, or old data is updated at ...
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Real Time Web Sockets Architecture
I am confused here on how real time analytics is accomplished with web sockets when data is inserted into the system via a REST API. In my (admitted immature) understanding of web sockets, you have ...
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How to design document exchange system
I am trying to come up with a design of document exchange system.
System should be for business-to-business communication.
Description:
There will be possibly 100+ clients(consumers) - they will have ...
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Trying to figure out how to make the syntaxes of 2 different API's the same
I'm doing research to a problem occurred in our company. We have a front-end web portal which communicates by API with a back-end in a same syntax, for example: "www.123.com/api/v1/getCustomers".
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Keep Hitting 3rd party API or Store Commonly Queried Data In DB?
Colleague and I have begun a long (and hopefully fruitful) project. I've been building and have come to my first crux, and now I ask the experts of the Stack Exchange for their guidance.
I'll keep ...
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Advantages of HATEOAS based RESTful service
There is a scenario, where we have two commercial applications that are so called REST based(java) but not HATEOAS compliant. Development activity is out-sourced to vendor
Development phase of ...
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General question about REST principles
I am unsure, if I understand the principles of REST completely.
The idea behind it is (according to e.g. Wiki and other sources) that data is transferred via HTTP(S) and addressed via URIs. Depending ...
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Consequences of not doing a REST API the “right” way?
I'll ask this question this way - what are the software engineering concerns for not implementing my REST API the "right" way?
What do you mean the "right" way? Well, allow me to explain my ...
