Delphi Cookbook - Third Edition

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Our REST service handles a resource that is stored in a database table called PEOPLE. It provides CRUD methods, plus some specific features to paginate the data. Remember that RESTful doesn't mean expose the method to do CRUD on a table, but expose the method to handle a resource. A resource can, or cannot, have a representation on a database table. Moreover, a resource can be also very complex with multiple nested objects, so while a table can be represented as a simple resource, a resource is generally not a mere table but an object graph stored on one, two, or more tables, or not stored at all. This is the HTTP REST interface that we'll implement:

HTTP VERB	URL	DESCRIPTION
GET	/people	Returns a JSON array ...