Building RESTful Web services with Go

REST verbs and status codes

REST verbs specify an action to be performed on a specific resource or a collection of resources. When a request is made by the client, it should send this information in the HTTP request:

• REST verb
• Header information
• Body (optional)

As we mentioned previously, REST uses the URI to decode its resource to be handled. There are quite a few REST verbs available, but six of them are used frequently. They are as follows:

• GET
• POST
• PUT
• PATCH
• DELETE
• OPTIONS

If you are a software developer, you will be dealing with these six most of the time. The following table explains the operation, target resource, and what happens if the request succeeds or fails:

REST Verb	Action	Success	Failure
GET	Fetches a record or set ...