Chapter 4. Producing and consuming Restlet representations
This chapter covers
- Producing and consuming XML and JSON representations
- Producing HTML using template representations
- HTTP content negotiation
- Simplifying representation handling with the converter service
In part 1 of the book, we had several opportunities to discuss representations. In chapter 1 we briefly explained that representations in REST are used to transfer resource state. We pointed to appendix A for an overview of the org.restlet.representation package and to appendix D for details on RESTful representation design, covering the definition of representation classes and the importance of hypermedia as the preferred mechanism to interact with an application in REST. ...
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