Sam Ruby: Progressive Disclosure
Without intending to take anything away from Roy’s (valid) criticism on labeling, REST isn’t an all or nothing proposition. One can get significant value from partial adoption.
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Bill de hÓra: "Just" use POST
PUT means update the resource with this entity, which tends means "overwrite". Now think for a moment about how that works for things like tags in a blog post - if I leave the tag out, am I saying remove it? Ignore it? Do I have to echo back all t...
JSON APIs: Default design for common features
When you build a JSON API you need to come up with a style to represent attributes, pagination, errors or including associated objects. Instead of reinventing the wheel, you may reuse successful API designs.
JSON API
[JSON:API](https://...
PragDave: The RADAR Architecture: RESTful Application, Dumb-Ass Recipient
So, as a result, people using RESTful ideas to talk to browsers have to put the smarts back on the server. They invent new URLs which (for example) return a resource, but return it all wrapped up in the HTML needed to display it as a form for brow...
Savon: Use complex SOAP types as arguments
If a SOAP API expects you to call a remote method with arguments of complex types, Savon lets you manually set the xsi:type attribute like this:
client.call(:rpc_method,
message: {
:some_object => {
:n...
rest-discuss : Message: Re: [rest-discuss] REST, HTTP, Sessions and Cookies
Most of the problems with cookies are due to breaking visibility,
Ruby, Rails, Web2.0 » Blog Archive » Great Ruby on Rails REST resources
I have been playing around with RESTful Rails recently. Below is my collection or Rails REST howtos, tutorials and other resources I have found so far.
It's an HTTParty and Everyone Is Invited! // RailsTips by John Nunemaker
Awesome library to consume web services in Ruby.
How to (and how not to) design REST APIs · stickfigure/blog Wiki
In my career, I have consumed hundreds of REST APIs and produced dozens. Since I often see the same mistakes repeated in API design, I thought it might be nice to write down a set of best practices. And poke fun at a couple widely-used APIs.
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mca blog [de hÓra: "Just" Use Post]
Once you start introducing partial updates, you open yourself for caching problems. doing partial updates means all cached copies of the original resource are now invalid.
Best practices for REST API design
A rough guide how to implement a REST API.
The discussion here includes some interesting points as well:
- Timestamps: ISO8601 format ("2021-02-22T20:34:53.686Z")
- Google API guideline: <htt...