The GET method is used to retrieve resources. Before digging into the actual mechanics of the HTTP GET request, we first need to determine what a resource is in the context of our web service and what type of representation we are exchanging.
For the rest of this section, we will use the example of a RESTful web service handling the department details for an organization. For this service, the JSON representation of a department looks as follows:
{"departmentId":10,"departmentName":"IT","manager":"John Chen"}
The JSON representation of the list of departments looks as follows:
[{"departmentId":10,"departmentName":"IT","manager":"John Chen"}, {"departmentId":20,"departmentName":"Marketing","manager":"Ameya J"}, {"departmentId":30,"departmentName":"HR","manager":"Pat ...
