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Rest API

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Most common API. Rest style apis are restful Use a program to send a http protocol to a server. This is stateless, so server doesn’t remember anything about the client.

  1. Send HTTP request
  2. Fetch data from database
  3. Return data in JSON format OAuth is commonly required to access an API functionality

Constraints

  • Client-server architecture
  • Statelessness
  • Layered system
  • Cacheability
  • Uniform design
  • Code on demand

HTTP Requests

GET

Retrieving data from the server.

  • Used for non-sensitive data

POST

Send data to the server

  • Used for authentication
  • Used to create things

PUT

Updating information

  • SQL

DELETE

Delete a resource on the server

Retrieve resource headers without the resource itself. Similar to GET, but has no resource body

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