Questions tagged [rest]
Representational state transfer, or REST, is an architectural style for networking software to transfer information through the web.
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Using both websocket and REST for the application requiring two-way communication
I am currently implementing front-end part of the collaborative application requiring two-way live communication between server and the web app. Cloud service responsible for the data exchange will be ...
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How to model api error type with errorCode and parameters
I work on a spring kotlin backend which has an angular and a mobile frontend. We are currently working on error handling and we decided that the backend should return an error code, a general message (...
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Encapsulating a central soap service in a microservice?
I am currently developing an application (rest-backend and SPA) that requires information from people (personal data, department, superior... ). Our company has a central directory for this purpose. ...
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Multi-tenant (realm based) REST Web API authentication
We're building a multi-tenant setup with a C# Web API and KeyCloak for auth and APISIX as application gateway. APISIX handles the authentication and passes an X-Access-Token to our API when ...
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How to model two bounded contexts with tight coupling between them
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Hello, at my company we have been working with DDD for some time now. We have a monolith and some services. The bounded contexts in the monolith use HTTP calls to communicate between them or ...
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Idempotency for a financial transaction API
Say you have a REST API endpoint like POST /move-money which transfers money from your main account to a savings pot. There are three path parameters
accountId for the user's account
potId for the ...
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HATEOAS API - best practice to create multiple entities in one request
I have a HATEOAS API (in ASP.NET) with an endpoint:
POST /api/messages - to create a new message and it returns the location of a new message
Now I have a requirement that in some cases based on ...
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Why split up data retrieved from a database into multiple endpoints, if we need ALL the data anyway?
I have a "Games" API which retrieves video game data from a large database.
The /games endpoint returns some very basic information about the game, such as the title, description, etc.
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How can I avoid duplicate annotations when validating both Entity and DTOs?
I am using the Spring Boot framework to create a RESTFUL API and I need a way to avoid the duplication of validation rules when using multiple DTOs as request/response objects for my endpoints.
Using ...
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How to handle different json response for the same api rest endpoint and different http status
I have an endpoint similar to GET ../produtcs/123 where 123 stands for an ID. The REST service response
with either status 200 and a json object A {"deliveryData": {"status": 200, ...
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Efficient access control list for collections of objects returned by REST api
We have a REST api endpoints that return collections of objects where users could perform different types of actions on those objects. We need it to turn on/off different UI options based on that ...
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POST and PATCH for a nested resource in REST API
One post can have many comments.
How can I design REST API urls for HTTP POST and HTTP PATCH for comments.
My idea is to have the following endpoints:
HTTP GET: /posts/{postId}/comments
HTTP GET (all ...
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Alternative ways to transfer records from one environment to another
I'm working on an application which has a feature of syncing records between two environments. For example, a record A is created in environment A. After a user verifies it, the user can use the sync ...
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Request validation on API proxy
I am creating an API proxy that acts as a bridge between our frontend application and an AWS opensearch server. This proxy has additional features such as retries and timeouts.
One of the features I'm ...
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Creating associated resources before creating the main one in a REST setting
I'm not sure how common of a scenario this is, but what are some approaches to creating associated entities before you have the actual main entity they're supposed to be linked to? (basically having ...
