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Insignificant Person
Insignificant Person

Reputation: 923

REST API File Upload

I used some web services and made my own. All of them were simple and they were only using simple GET requests like this:

http://foobar.com/api/movies?category=drama&apikey=bsbsbsbsbs

and a JSON data was output according to the parameters provided.

What I wanna do is a fileupload service. Normally if it wasn't a web service I would use HTTP POST for this. How can i do this with REST API? What's the difference between POST and GET requests with respect to REST web services.

Edit: I'm using PHP, please don't give ASP.net examples.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 9193

Answers (1)

paco
paco

Reputation: 48

In REST you have the CRUD Methods ( Create, Read, Update, Delete) if you want to upload a file you need a PUT(Update) or POST(Create) method. The GET (Read) is only to get data from your Service not for Create, Update, Delete.

Here you will get some more information

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-restwsdl/

REST PHP Example:

http://coreymaynard.com/blog/creating-a-restful-api-with-php/

Upvotes: 1

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