October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
590 pages
15h 5m
English
We mentioned earlier that a resource is an abstraction of information. It has a state, which is described through its representation, which can have different formats, such as XML, HTML, and JSON. Nowadays, JSON is the most popular format of a resource's representation.
In REST, the manipulation of a resource is through sending a representation back to the server using standard HTTP methods. The most common methods are GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE. We will discuss them in detail later.
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