很多人觉得 REST 很复杂。其实，它真正想解决的问题只有一个：让客户端无需阅读文档，仅凭 URL、HTTP 方法和状态码，就能猜出接口的大部分行为。 很多开发者第一次接触 RESTful API 时，都会有一种错觉：REST 不就是 GET、POST、PUT、DELETE 吗？于是，很快就写出了这样的接口： GET /getUsers POST /createUser POST /deleteU ...

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Despite REST's position as the de facto standard in web services development, it's not without some shortcomings. Data exchange formats can be bloated, and it lacks standards for API documentation and ...

Take advantage of these best practices to ensure that changes to your API don’t break compatibility with current clients. Representational State Transfer, commonly known as REST, is an architectural ...

One of the key strengths of REST is its simplicity, but that simplicity sometimes raises objections from developers who question whether such a simple approach to application integration can deal with ...

It’s easy to get sloppy in your APIs, so here’s a refresher on how to be correctly RESTful in your client scripts Recently, I was trying to write a little client script for Apache Solr. It was just ...