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Yves Schelpe
Yves Schelpe

Reputation: 3463

Protocol/Schema Standard for RESTFul services?

Is there a general standard (in development) towards RESTful services? Since it's HTTP, I'm not talking about the technical standard ofcourse, but a more common way of exposing methods and functionality and implementing those.

And if not, are there general rules, to follow when developing a RESTFul service?

Or should we base ourselves on general API design, where there's already tons of books written about. Only question then to bear in mind, does it always translate to the web as well.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 75

Answers (1)

Darrel Miller
Darrel Miller

Reputation: 142094

No there is no standard for RESTful design. It is simply a style. Following the constraints of the style allows many different valid design approaches.

You cannot translate many general procedural API design guidelines into web API design because distributed computing has many different issues than library level APIs.

Upvotes: 2

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