What Is REST API? Examples And How To Use It: Crash Course System Design #3

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[@軟豆失憶日記]

you mean byte-sized

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REST APIの基本的な使い方や実際の例が分かりやすく、APIの重要性がよく理解できました。シンプルで効率的なシステム設計におけるREST APIの強力さを再認識できました。今後もこのような情報を楽しみにしています！

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this is not Alex.

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Finally found something that cleared by doubt about REST API , precise and concise content . Thank you Sir

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Very well explained to the point, without any fluff or distraction. Great job. Thank you.

[@michaelmcnally1242]

"Readable" URIs are not required for REST, according to Fielding's original paper. In fact, the paper suggests that URIs should be *not* understandable, because the state transfer part of the REST API response is supposed to contain everything necessary for subsequent state changes. That said, the term "REST" has really ceased to mean anything since the original paper was written.

[@TanayPrabhuDesai]

Yes, what he explained is more about HTTP than about REST

[@oliveryt7168]

"Rest in Practice" (a really good read) for example clearly makes the destinction about what truly RESTful is. The "Richardson maturity model" can be helpful, to tell if your web service is restful or not...

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[@M3t4lstorm]

It's so simple that almost everyone does REST wrong

[@Dattarjun]

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[@scruffymakaveli6870]

Because it's an informal guideline rather than a formal standard like http

[@lolstudy4062]

True 😂

[@JeremyChone]

We moved from REST to JSON-RPC for all our remote APIs. Much better representation for remote function calls. It made the whole http method to function call mapping gymnastic disappears. We wish we would have done so 10 years ago.

[@JustinShaedo]

I wish it was better supported (ie in an browsers). So much faster!

[@JeremyChone]

@@JustinShaedoWhat do you mean by better supported?

[@JustinShaedo]

@@JeremyChone JSON-RPC is not natively supported in web browsers (unless that's changed very recently, happy to be corrected, yes I know there are good reasons why not, but as it can be done with plugins, hopefully it will become native eventually.).

[@JeremyChone]

@@JustinShaedo Hmm, I'm not sure what "natively supported by browsers" means. JSON-RPC is simply JSON over an HTTP POST. In fact, it's a subset of REST in terms of the protocol and HTTP method used. So, assuming we make our requests with the browser's XHR or the new Fetch API, there's nothing more the browser needs to provide to support JSON-RPC over REST, since JSON-RPC is a subset of REST.

[@JustinShaedo]

@@JeremyChone With respect, I think you could benefit from reading about JSON-RPC from the official web site (can't post links). There's a lot (respectfully most) of what you state that is not correct. But if it's working for you, then all power to you.

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This short 5 minute video is really useful for me to understand what is REST Api. Many thanks...

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[@Alex_C_5605]

RESTful concept is great in an ideal world. In a real world it contradicts with Web Security requirements. Use of a GET method is limited, because no sensitive data can be exposed as a part of REST URI. When I want to read something and REST suggests to use a GET call, but I want to hide read parameters from a man-in-the-middle, I must use POST or PUT to pass all sensitive data in a body.

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[@tomok284]

Look forward to the GRPC video. Thanks a lot!

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[@baptiste6436]

Actually the Accept header is made to tell the server the answer format, I think you were looking for Content-Type

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[@atalhlla]

Note: It is not unRESTful to use POST for complex query requests. If you feel the need to wedge this into “POST _always_ creates something new”, which you really loosen up about, then you can think of it as “this POST request created a new search result, but the server does not persist it”. For more fun reading, read up about the difference between REST (an architectural style) and HTTP (a transport mechanism), and basically any whinging by Roy Fielding.

[@cormerus]

The complex query request, one where a body is used, it's a gray area. Initially people used the POST, but that verb is for creation, so it doesn't make lot of sense. That's why the GET with body appeared, and for me, it should be used instead of POST. Either way, there's a new proposal for a new verb, QUERY, to solve this.

[@atalhlla]

@@cormerus most annoying part of GET with body for me is just having to make sure whatever abstraction the project I’m on doesn’t enforce “no body on GET” since that part of the spec was changed relatively recently. QUERY would certainly solve that, though might be annoying in any abstraction which doesn’t let me add support for new/arbitrary verbs.

[@cormerus]

@@atalhlla well, once QUERY becomes a part of the standard, i believe it's a matter of time till all implementations accept it. Right now, .NET accepts GET with body

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Does it mean that if I want to be RESTful then I have to do the only for CRUD operations?

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Perfect introduction to APIs before learning libraries used for making network requests in Kotlin 🙂

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[@syedarmaghanhassan4652]

Thanks for sharing. Unless you compare it with anohter TYPE of API, most of the information you shared could be true for any API, be it REST or NOT-REST, except for the property of having Stateless Data-Transfer, which is a silly term coinned by silly people anyway in my opinion. Moreover, "state" is something absolutely different. Every data-transfer has a state or format. A better term for this property would be "Log-Free", meaning both at server and client-side, there is not log of information being kept, and every request is independent from each other. I really love your channel and cool videos. Keep up the good work!

[@GiovanniFuLin]

For those who are asking for the animation tools, they are in the description.

Excellently presented and introduced. 👍