Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

Understanding the tasks performed by each HTTP method

Let's consider that http://localhost:5000/service/notifications/ is the URL for the collection of notifications. If we add a number to the previous URL, we identify a specific notification whose ID is equal to the specified numeric value. For example, http://localhost:5000/service/notifications/5 identifies the notification whose ID is equal to 5.

We want our API to differentiate collections from a single resource of the collection in the URLs. When we refer to a collection, we will use a slash (/) as the last character for the URL, as in http://localhost:5000/service/notifications/. When we refer to a single resource of the collection, we won't use a slash (/) as the last character for ...