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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REST - different response from same resource dependent on requester
Let's say I have a single resource of employee that belongs to user:
{
"id": 1, "name": "John Doe", "userId: 1
}
When making a GET request to /employees/1, I'm ...
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Multiple JSON REST Responses for the same API
I want to send two different json response for the same API based on a flag.
I have a final response json as below for /api/v1/student/, which is created by fetching responses from few other REST apis....
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Multithreaded processing of single REST requests
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We're providing an API that provides information about all users within a given group. Our API is a high level facade over another low-level REST API.
To gather those information we first ...
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REST API security: HMAC/key hashing vs JWT
I just read this article that is a few years old but describes a clever way of securing your REST APIs. Essentially:
Each client has a unique public/private key pair
Only the client and the server ...
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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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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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REST API Design: Should the update (PUT) request include the ID in the resource URL?
When designing a REST API for update request. Usually PUT is used. Question: should the resource URL include the id usually?
For instance, there is a book resource: http://localhost:8080/library/book
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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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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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How to setup REST API in Codeigniter 3.0
I am creating the REST API using codeigniter. I downloaded this library and installed in my application. It works great! https://github.com/chriskacerguis/codeigniter-restserver
But I have an doubt. ...
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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 to mock REST services for testing
I am currently building an application that consists of multiple small rest services that communicate between them. For example, a request to service A might make requests to services B and C in the ...
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