November 2017
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Asynchronous execution of RESTful web APIs
If your RESTful web API takes a considerable amount of time to finish the job and the users cannot wait for the API to finish, you may want to consider using the asynchronous mode of execution.
The asynchronous RESTful web API works as explained here. The client calls the asynchronous RESTful API as any other API:
POST /employees HTTP/1.1
[{"departmentId": 10, "departmentName": "IT"},
{"departmentId": 20, "departmentName": "HR"},...]
The asynchronous API that is responsible for handling the preceding request accepts the request and returns the 202 Accepted status to the caller without keeping the caller waiting for the request to finish. The response also can have a temporary resource inside the ...