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restful

restful

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A way that lets programs use standard web requests to exchange data
  • adjective
  • /ˈrɛstfəl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : basado en REST
  • Most modern applications are built using RESTful APIs that allow seamless interaction with server resources.
  • RESTful service

Examples

  • RESTful web services leverage this information much better than SOAP-based web services do.

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  • Details on the specification of each RESTful service for related documents are provided in Table 1.

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  • So you might ask, what exactly does a RESTful web service designer do then?

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  • Your API is not RESTful.

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  • The device has a RESTful API, so you can program your Spark to interact with the web.

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  • Two such leading standards for API design used to be XML-RPC and SOAP, but nowadays RESTful APIs are all the hype.

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  • When developing software, it's important to understand how to create a RESTful web service to ensure efficient data communication.

  • A RESTful architecture simplifies the implementation of APIs by using standard HTTP methods for resource access.

Surface Forms

restful positive
restfuller comparative
restfullest superlative

Morphology

restful = REST (opaque) = REST + ful

The term 'RESTful' is derived from the acronym 'REST' with the suffix '-ful', but the meaning is specialized and not immediately clear from the components.

Etymology

Restful in computing comes from the short name REST, which stands for Representational State Transfer, and a helpful way to remember it is to think of web 'resources' you can 'get' or 'change' with simple web commands, so a restful API makes access to data on the web easy and predictable.