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

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 ...

There is no sanctioning body or open source linter that can verify if a RESTful API conforms and complies with all applicable REST API naming conventions and best practices. However, REST API ...

The size of the API documentation says it all: eBay's REST documentation is 29 pages long, and documentation for the SOAP and XML APIs is more than 1,600 pages long in each case. Because the ...

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