- What is REST?
Representational state transfer is a software architectural style that defines a set of constraints to be used for creating Web services. Web services that conform to the REST architectural style, called RESTful Web services.
In REST the data & functionality are considered resources. The resources are manipulated using fixed set of operations, further the resources are represented in multiple formats eg HTML, XML, plain text
REST is pure stateless.
REST Operations
- Get
- Post
- Put
- Delete
Status Codes
- 200
- 300
- 400
- 500