reading-notes

🗒️ Class 08

• What does REST stand for?

  REST stands for Representational State Transfer (REST)

• REST APIs are designed around a __.

  REST APIs are designed around a resources.

• What is an identifier of a resource? Give an example.

  A resource has a URI which helps uniquly identify a resource. Here is an examploe of the URI http://domain.com/path/to/resource?query=param1

• What are the most common HTTP verbs?

  GET, POST, PUT, DELETE

• What should the URIs be based on?

  When possible, uris should be based on nouns.

• Give an example of a good URI.

  good URI is /orders; bad URI is /create-order

• What does it mean to have a ‘chatty’ web API? Is this a good or a bad thing?

  An API is considered chatty when it sends multiple requests to server or when it gets back more data from the server than needed.

• What status code does a successful GET request return?

  200 (Not Found)

• What status code does an unsuccessful GET request return?

  204 (No Content)

• What status code does a successful POST request return?

  201 (Created)

• What status code does a successful DELETE request return?

  204 (No Content)