C++ Reactive Programming

The REST programming model

The REST, which stands for  REpresentational State Transfer, is an architectural style spearheaded by Roy Fielding as part of his PhD thesis. Nowadays, it is one of the most popular technique for exposing and consuming web services. REST follows a resource-centric approach and nicely maps to the CRUD pattern, which are popular among programmers who are well versed in writing enterprise business applications. We use JavaScript Object Notation (also known as JSON) as payload while writing REST services, instead of the XML format (which is in vogue for SOAP services). The REST programming model relies on HTTP verbs (GET,POST,PUT,DELETE and so on )to indicate the kind of operations to be executed while receiving a REST ...