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What is Rest(Representational State Transfer)?

• An architect style
• client-server communication via HTTP(Request / Response)

Request

• Basic HTTP verbs
  • GET: Requesting for resource
  • POST: Creating a new resource
  • PUT: Update a existing resource
  • DELETE: Delete a existing resource
• Resource paths (end points)
  • Paths are used for identifying resource location
• HTTP Header
  • Content-Type
  • Auth
• HTTP Request Payload

Response

• The status of the request
  • status code
    • 200 - Success
    • 201 - Success
    • 400 - Bad Request(ex: invalid json object...)
    • 401 - Not Authorized(ex: you need to login...)
    • 403 - forbidden(ex: admins only...)
    • 500 - sever error
  • Response Payload(could be JSON object)