Building RESTful Python Web Services

Understanding the tasks performed by each HTTP method

The following table shows the HTTP verbs, the scope, and the semantics for the methods that our new API must support. Each method is composed by an HTTP verb and a scope and all the methods have well-defined meanings for all the resources and collections.

HTTP verb	Scope	Semantics
GET	Collection of game categories	Retrieve all the stored game categories in the collection, sorted by their name in ascending order. Each game category must include a list of URLs for each game resource that belongs to the category.
GET	Game category	Retrieve a single game category. The game category must include a list of URLs for each game resource that belongs to the category.
POST	Collection ...