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tiste

Reputation: 41

How to do a JSON webservice

I need to create a webservice that will be used in iOS, Windows Phone and Android apps.

I've found many tutorials on the Internet but no one uses real JSON files. I have an example of what I mean:

https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_entities=true&include_rts=true&screen_name=tiste&count=2

Is it better to use a web service like Twitter or can we use only headers in PHP? If it's the first, how can I do it?

Finally, is JSON the most suitable option for web service communication?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 240

Answers (1)

Sergey Eremin
Sergey Eremin

Reputation: 11076

Most contemporary web apps are built around an api - they are called api-centric. Twitter is one of them. You are not the only one who needs to create a web frontend and apps for mobile platforms. Having an api for all those platforms is going to save you a lot of time.

This field is developing rapidly now. There are many frameworks(both client and server side) to choose from. Since you are not telling us which technology/programming language you are going to use, i can only suggest you to google an api-centric or a rest framework. If you extend your question, i'll give a more specific answer.

Meanwhile you can read the following general articles...

Upvotes: 1

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