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Reputation: 26364

Consuming REST API from the server side?

I am going to write a webserver which serves various clients through REST API. For example , I have city table which list of all the cities and the URI "/cities" will return all the cities in the CITY database. In this case , when "/cities" URI is requested , the backend code will query the database and form JSON and respond. There is another module in the server which requires the same list of cities . Do I need to reuse the same REST implementation in this case or I can directly query the database as this server side query.

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 361

Answers (1)

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 944054

Making an HTTP request for that data wouldn't be very efficient.

Directly querying the database means duplicating code.

The best approach here is probably to write a module which accesses the database and gets the data and then use that module from both places in the code that need that data.

Upvotes: 5

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