Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

Resource-oriented design

The resource-oriented design section intends to walk you through the ROA design guidelines, design principles, and characteristics, along with its properties as well. Having introduced ROA properties, we will look at REST architecture in subsequent sections.

ROA-based web services describe a self-discoverable entity, and modeling is based on its logical form (unlike services, as they are based on the technical form).

Let's look at the basic blocks of ROA such as resources, representations, and so on in the following diagram:

The blocks in the preceding diagram represent the typical structure of ROA and give an idea ...