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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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Principle 4 – Resources can have multiple representations

A key feature of a resource is that it may be represented in a different format from the one in which it is stored. Thus, it can be requested or created in different representations. As long as the specified format is supported, the REST-enabled endpoint should use it. In the preceding example, we posted an XML representation of a watch item, but if the server had supported the JSON format, the following request would have been valid as well:

POST /categories/watches HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: application/json Host: www.mycatalog.com { "watch": { "id": ""watch-abc"", "brand": "...", "price": { "-currency": "EUR", "#text": "100" } } } HTTP/1.1 201 Created Content-Type: application/json ...
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