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John John
John John

Reputation: 1

why asp.net MVC controllers are not considered as RESTful web service

I have an asp.net web application, now let say a user send a POST action method to the application using following URL Myapplication.com/Customer/Edit/120, then this URL will update the customer who have ID=120 with the data sent.

So this is the same as calling a web service, since you are integrating with the application (in this case Update a customer) using URLs, so why this is not consider as having a RESTfull web service!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 256

Answers (1)

Anand
Anand

Reputation: 14935

What exactly is a web service ? And how do you differentiate between a web page and web service.

These are just different terms of retrieving some Resource. Either with Web Service or Web Page, you are just requesting for a resource. The representation is fixed for web page i.e its always HTML. If from my web service instead of returning Json or XML , if it start serving HTML would then make it a web page ?

I think the whole concept of web service came with SOAP world. With Rest there is nothing as web service or web page. There are mere different representation for a resource(json, xml, html, image).

Further to answer your

so why this is not consider as having a RESTfull web service!

Microsoft has launched Asp.Net Web API, which is nothing but pure MVC to serve content.

Upvotes: 2

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