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What Is REST Architecture?: GET Post Delete PUT

REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer and is an architectural style for building web services. It uses common HTTP methods like GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE to access and modify resources, which are any component that can be named, such as a file or database record. Resources are uniquely identified by their URI and can be represented in different data formats like JSON or XML. RESTful web services apply REST principles by using URIs to identify resources and HTTP methods to manipulate representations of those resources, allowing interoperability across different programming languages.

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What Is REST Architecture?: GET Post Delete PUT

REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer and is an architectural style for building web services. It uses common HTTP methods like GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE to access and modify resources, which are any component that can be named, such as a file or database record. Resources are uniquely identified by their URI and can be represented in different data formats like JSON or XML. RESTful web services apply REST principles by using URIs to identify resources and HTTP methods to manipulate representations of those resources, allowing interoperability across different programming languages.

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What is REST architecture?

REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer. REST is web standards based
architecture and uses HTTP Protocol. It revolves around resource where every
component is a resource and a resource is accessed by a common interface using
HTTP standard methods. REST was first introduced by Roy Fielding in 2000.
In REST architecture, a REST Server simply provides access to resources and REST
client accesses and modifies the resources. Here each resource is identified by URIs/
global IDs. REST uses various representation to represent a resource like text, JSON,
XML. JSON is the most popular one.

HTTP methods
Following four HTTP methods are commonly used in REST based architecture.
 GET − Provides a read only access to a resource.
 POST − Used to create a new resource.
 DELETE − Used to remove a resource.
 PUT − Used to update a existing resource or create a new resource.

Introduction to RESTFul web services


A web service is a collection of open protocols and standards used for exchanging
data between applications or systems. Software applications written in various
programming languages and running on various platforms can use web services to
exchange data over computer networks like the Internet in a manner similar to inter-
process communication on a single computer. This interoperability (e.g., between
Java and Python, or Windows and Linux applications) is due to the use of open
standards.
Web services based on REST Architecture are known as RESTful web services.
These webservices uses HTTP methods to implement the concept of REST
architecture. A RESTful web service usually defines a URI, Uniform Resource
Identifier a service, provides resource representation such as JSON and set of HTTP
Methods.

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