REST Glossary

REST

• REST (Representational State Transfer) is a simple stateless architecture that runs over HTTP/S.

Format - JSON/XML (REST can return data in XML and JSON formats; the most common format is JSON.)

• JSON – JavaScript Object Notation – Compact format which represents data objects in a serialized textual format.
• XML – Extensible Markup Language – Hierarchical/Structured data format based on Nodes and Attributes. Commonly queried using XPath.

END Point

• The URL of the data to be retrieved, updated, or deleted. The endpoint can be defined at the top level of the message or at the method level.

REST API Methods

• GET – Read/retrieve a record
• POST – Create a new table record
• PUT – Update a table record
• DELETE – Delete a table record