Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices
by Harihara Subramanian J, Anupama Murali, Pethuru Raj
Discussing the web API
So far, we have discussed the fundamentals of the client-server/web services paradigm, and the way they communicate with standard protocols; however, we are yet to touch upon REST-based communication and after all, that's what this book is about. This section will cover the introduction of web APIs, and how a web API is a development model for web services. The communication between the devices is REST-based. RESTful APIs do not use/require XML- based web service protocols, such as SOAP or WSDL, to support their interfaces, but they use simplified representations instead.
The following diagram depicts the web API and their simplified representations as the client side and the server side are exposed to each other through ...
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