REST APIs

Methods (Verbs)

  • GET/POST/DELETE

  • PUT: to replace a resource with another one

  • PATCH: to modify a resource

  • But sometimes the API designer may choose to let PUT, PATCH, and POST have the same behavior

  • OPTIONS: returns all methods available in the end point

  • HEAD: returns just the head of the response

Request

Headers include Authorization, Content-Type (e.g. application/json), Cache-Control (e.g. no-cache), etc.

Response

HTTP response status code

Categories

Example

1xx

Information

rarely used

2xx

Success

200 OK

3xx

Redirection

301 Moved permanently

4xx

Client error

404 Not found

5xx

Server error

503 Service unavailable

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