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RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10 - Third Edition
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RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10 - Third Edition

by Valentin Bojinov
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
178 pages
3h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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Discovering and exploring RESTful services

The topic of discovering RESTful services has a long and complicated history. The HTTP specification states that a resource should be self-descriptive and that it should be identified uniquely by a URI. Dependent resources should be linked by the dependency using their own unique URIs. Discovering a RESTful service means navigating from one service to another, following the links it provides.

In the year 2009, a specification called Web Application Discovery Language (WADL) was invented. It aims to document every URI exposed from a web application, along with the HTTP methods it supports and the parameter it expects. The response media type of the URI is also described. This is very useful for documenting ...

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