Analytics for the Internet of Things (IoT)

Representational State Transfer (REST) principles

REST allows internet-enabled devices to inter-operate with each other using a uniform Application Programming Interface (API). A device or server that complies to this is called RESTful. It assumes interactions are client/server-based and are stateless. The following table shows the key commands supported by the HTTP REST API Interface:

HTTP REST API

HTTP POST: Adds a new resource

HTTP PUT: Updates a specific resource by replacing it with an updated version

HTTP GET: Reads a specified resource

HTTP PATCH: Partially updates a resource in a collection

HTTP DELETE: Deletes a resource