The subject of media types has been glossed over in some of our recent blogs and screencasts. In this blog I’d like to focus on what media types are and give some basic guidelines for…
Hypermedia as the engine of application state. Wow, that’s a mouthful. Many people shorten the phrase to HATEOAS, which is only slightly less of a mouthful (or keyboardful), but it’s what we’ve got. HATEOAS is…
Client: “I want JSON.” Server: “Silly client, you think it’s going to be that easy? If you ever want to see JSON alive again, you’re going to have to give me one million dollars.” Client:…
Now that Topher figured out how to make an HTTP request to a RESTful Web Service, he needs to know all about resources and representations. Resources are the objects that a web services exposes to…
After learning the basics regarding REST and RESTful URIs Topher decided he was ready to learn more about HTTP requests. One of the important characteristics of a RESTful Web Service is the use of a…
So after reading the last blog Snookie and Topher were even more interested in this REST thing. Searching the Internet for examples they found the following REST URI* which returns a dictionary definition of the…
So my colleague Snookie asked me the other day, “What’s this REST thing I keep hearing about?” So I said “Well Snook, Representational State Transfer, or REST, is an architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems.”…
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