Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

Characterizing the REST architecture style

First and foremost, the REST paradigm is an architectural pattern. There were a number of design patterns published by experts in order to design and develop RESTful services. There are integration and deployment patterns for the quick realization of the pioneering REST paradigm.

The REST paradigm is compliant with the famous RoA pattern. The application state and functionality are methodically divided into distributed resources. These resources are available online and, hence, each resource can be accessed and used with the ubiquitous HTTP commands (GET, PUT, POST, and Delete). If we want to put a file in a file server, we need to use PUT or POST. If we want to get a file from the server, we can ...