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so i need to create a rest endpoint that basically creates an entry in the database, a address token when the customer is initialised. I have two possible endpoints: POST - customer/address-token -...

I am learning RESTful webservices using JAX-RS Jersey. Although we have different HTTP Methods for different purposes like: GET for Reading a resource DELETE fro deleting a resource PUT and POST for ...

When should a trailing slash be used in a URL? For example - should my URL look like /about-us/ or like /about-us? I am fully aware of the SEO-related issues - duplicate content and the canonical ...

Let's assume a service offers some funcionality that I can use like this: GET /service/function?param1=value1&param2=value2 Is it right to say that I can use it with a POST query? POST /service/...

Curious how others here would represent these in a REST architecture. /users/login/ /users/logout/ These endpoints set up the session to login in the user, or clear it, respectively. My gut says POST,...

I'm well into implementing a REST service (on a Windows CE platform if that matters) and I started out using IBM's general definitions of using POST for creating (INSERTs) and PUT for updating. Now ...

There is another similar question to mine, but the discussion veered away from the problem I'm encounting. Say I have a system that deals with expense reports (ER). You can create and edit them, add ...

there been quite good thread on rest urls in SO. Is this a bad REST URL? Understanding REST: Verbs, error codes, and authentication I see a good resource here as well. The question is how to ...

I'm finding it necessary to understand why including action verbs in the URI violates the REST protocol for URI syntax? When I read the following article, I sense that too many people are making too ...

I've just been reading about REST URLs and seen the following example: /API/User/GetUser Now if this is accessed over HTTP with a verb GET isn't this a bad URL becuase it describes the action (GET) ...

What are the good choice for API error code response pattern? Instead of using different codes indicating different type of error 100001 // username not provided 100002 // password not provided ...

Many questions has been asked on Stack Overflow for RESTful URL design To name a few... Hierarchical URL Design: Hierarchical RESTful URL design Understanding REST: Verbs, error codes, and ...

I want to add actions to my REST API that would move 'resources' between different 'stores'. For instance, suppose my resources are normally accessed by the following URL: /resources /resources/{...

I have an application running with AS2/PHP. The AS2 communicate with PHP scripts via $_POST array of data, this array contains data like sessionkey, userID, and some database filtering (sql limit, ...

Why not just add http get support in config and that's done with the advantage that the service will be dual both SOAP AND REST? What's all the buzz around rest ? What WCF will bring to this ? I ...