Exercises in Programming Style

Chapter 33

Restful

33.1 Constraints

• Interactive: end-to-end between an active agent (e.g. a person) and a backend.
• Separation between client and server. Communication between the two is synchronous in the form of request–response.
• Statelessness communication: every request from client to server must contain all the information necessary for the server to serve the request. The server should not store context of ongoing interaction; session state is on the client.
• Uniform interface: clients and servers handle resources, which have unique identifiers. Resources are operated on with a restrictive interface consisting of creation, modification, ...