Questions tagged [rest]
REST (Representational State Transfer) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web. It has increased in popularity relative to RPC architectures such as SOAP due to the intrinsic de-coupling of client from server that comes from having a uniform interface between heterogeneous systems.
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HTTP GET with request body
I'm developing a new RESTful webservice for our application.
When doing a GET on certain entities, clients can request the contents of the entity.
If they want to add some parameters (for example ...
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Returning data from async call in Swift function
I have created a utility class in my Swift project that handles all the REST requests and responses. I have built a simple REST API so I can test my code. I have created a class method that needs to ...
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What is the difference between POST and PUT in HTTP?
Background Information Analysis:
According to RFC 2616, § 9.5, POST is used to create a resource:
The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request ...
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Is an entity body allowed for an HTTP DELETE request?
When issuing an HTTP DELETE request, the request URI should completely identify the resource to delete. However, is it allowable to add extra meta-data as part of the entity body of the request?
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How do I POST JSON data with cURL?
I use Ubuntu and installed cURL on it. I want to test my Spring REST application with cURL. I wrote my POST code at the Java side. However, I want to test it with cURL. I am trying to post a JSON data....
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How do I make a request using HTTP basic authentication with PHP curl?
I'm building a REST web service client in PHP and at the moment I'm using curl to make requests to the service.
How do I use curl to make authenticated (http basic) requests? Do I have to add the ...
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How to get body of a POST in php?
I submit as POST to a php page the following:
{a:1}
This is the body of the request (a POST request).
In php, what do I have to do to extract that value?
var_dump($_POST);
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RESTful Authentication
What does RESTful Authentication mean and how does it work? I can't find a good overview on Google. My only understanding is that you pass the session key (remeberal) in the URL, but this could be ...
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Best practices for API versioning? [closed]
Are there any known how-tos or best practices for web service REST API versioning?
I have noticed that AWS does versioning by the URL of the endpoint. Is this the only way or are there other ways to ...
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How to POST raw whole JSON in the body of a Retrofit request?
This question may have been asked before but no it was not definitively answered. How exactly does one post raw whole JSON inside the body of a Retrofit request?
See similar question here. Or is this ...
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"SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0"
In a React app component which handles Facebook-like content feeds, I am running into an error:
Feed.js:94 undefined "parsererror" "SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0
I ran ...
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How to secure an API REST for mobile app? (if sniffing requests gives you the "key") [closed]
I know there are some authentication methods for API Basic Authentication, API Keys, OAuth 2.0 ... all of those methods add a header or a FormData param in the request.
Although you use SSL, it's &...
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How to handle CORS using JAX-RS with Jersey
I'm developing a java script client application, in server-side I need to handle CORS, all the services I had written in JAX-RS with JERSEY.
My code:
@CrossOriginResourceSharing(allowAllOrigins = ...
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How to set the Content-Type header for an HttpClient request?
I'm trying to set the Content-Type header of an HttpClient object as required by an API I am calling.
I tried setting the Content-Type like below:
using (var httpClient = new HttpClient())
{
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