Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

Demystifying the RESTful services paradigm

This book takes a deep dive into RESTful services and APIs. Despite being simple, REST is a fully-featured architectural style. Producing, exposing, and sustaining high-quality RESTful APIs to achieve smooth functional integration is a crucial yet challenging job for IT professionals. Predominantly, REST is implemented with the HTTP protocol. However, REST is not tied to HTTP alone. REST APIs are implemented for a resource, and the resource can be an entity or a service. These APIs provide a way to identify a resource by its URI. URIs can be used to transfer the current state of a resource representation. APIs can be represented as a set of endpoints stuffed with verbs and nouns. A verb typically ...