A REST API (short for Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface) is a way two separate pieces of ...

Take advantage of a DelegatingHandler and the X-HTTP-Method-Override in Web API to overcome browser and firewall constraints When deploying your REST Web API over a public domain, you will sometimes ...

The HTTP verb named PATCH can be used for partial updates, i.e., when you would like to update just a few fields of a resource. While you could update a resource “partially” using HTTP PUT, by sending ...

It's not hard to create a RESTful web service in Java. In fact, frameworks like Spring Boot, the Eclipse MicroProfile and Jakarta Enterprise Edition make the development of RESTful Java applications ...

Microsoft has recently released the Visual Studio 2013 Preview 1, which includes ASP .NET Web API 2. One of the most notable new additions to Web API is attribute-based routing. Prior to version 2, ...

Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three ...