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Filip Van Laenen in Compendium

May 28, 2018

Five Inconvenient Truths about REST: 5 — Hierarchical URIs Will Kill You in the End

One of the key concepts of RESTful webservices is the use of resources, and in particular how the resource URIs should look like. One should not underestimate the value of giving domain…

Filip Van Laenen in Compendium

May 27, 2018

Five Inconvenient Truths about REST: 4 — HATEOAS ⇒ YAGNI

Hypermedia as the engine of application state (HATEOAS) lets clients interact with the server entirely through the hypermedia provided by the server. In short: the logic about where to go next, and in particular the URLs for the…

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Filip Van Laenen in Compendium

May 27, 2018

Five Inconvenient Truths about REST: 3 — HTTP Response Codes ≠ “REST Response Codes”

In my previous article, I discussed the pros and cons of reusing HTTP verbs as REST verbs. The advantage is that you don’t have to learn a new set of verbs when you want to learn REST…

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Filip Van Laenen in Compendium

May 27, 2018

Five Inconvenient Truths about REST: 2 — HTTP Verbs ≠ “REST Verbs”

Reuse is often a good thing, but only as long as the mismatch between your needs and the functionality offered by the tool is relatively small. There’s definitely a lot of merit in reusing the HTTP verbs as “REST…

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Filip Van Laenen in Compendium

May 27, 2018

Five Inconvenient Truths about REST: 1 — GET Calls Are Never Nullipotent

These last years, REST has been my default choice as the protocol for automated interaction between computer systems. It’s easy to understand and easy to implement, but there are also a couple of things…

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