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adilahmed
adilahmed

Reputation: 1572

What are data formatters and http protocols? When we should use them?

What are the data formatters and http protocols?

I am somewhat confused about the below terms:

1.ODATA
2.REST and SOAP
3.WCF services
4.XML web services
5. JSON
6. WSDL

Upvotes: 0

Views: 44

Answers (1)

EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine
EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine

Reputation: 12181

REST - A style of web services.

JSON - JavaScript Object Notation - basically, a concise way of serializing objects.

SOAP - An XML format used to do web service calls

WCF Services - a Microsoft framework for making web services.

WSDL - Web Service Description Language. Usually used to automatically discover information about a web service, generate proxies, etc. - typically used with SOAP-based services.

OData - standard protocol/format for calling RESTful web services

The HTTP Protocol is at a somewhat lower level than these protocols are - it's a general application-level protocol that's used for making requests and responses in general. It's more about how you do a request to a server (and what it'll send back) in general, whereas things like OData and SOAP dictate what you actually put in the request and response. Does that make sense?

Upvotes: 1

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