Top "Rest" questions

What is the difference between HTTP and REST?

After reading a lot about the differences between REST and SOAP, I got the impression that REST is just another …

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How to get access to HTTP header information in Spring MVC REST controller?

I am new to web programming in general, especially in Java, so I just learned what a header and body …

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How to set base url for rest in spring boot?

I'm trying to to mix mvc and rest in a single spring boot project. I want to set base path …

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Hyphen, underscore, or camelCase as word delimiter in URIs?

I'm designing an HTTP-based API for an intranet app. I realize it's a pretty small concern in the grand scheme …

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Make REST API call in Swift

I'm trying to use Swift to make a GET call to a REST API, and have tried to follow numerous …

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Are there any naming convention guidelines for REST APIs?

When creating REST APIs, are there any guidelines or defacto standards for naming conventions within the API (eg: URL endpoint …

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Flask example with POST

Suppose the following route which accesses an xml file to replace the text of a specific tag with a given …

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download a file from Spring boot rest service

I am trying to download a file from a Spring boot rest service. @RequestMapping(path="/downloadFile",method=RequestMethod.GET) @Consumes(…

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JAX-RS / Jersey how to customize error handling?

I'm learning JAX-RS (aka, JSR-311) using Jersey. I've successfuly created a Root Resource and am playing around with parameters: @Path("/…

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REST API using POST instead of GET

Let's assume a service offers some funcionality that I can use like this: GET /service/function?param1=value1&param2=…

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