What is the REST API?
• It stands for REpresentational State Transfer.
• An architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems.
• Any interface which follows below guiding
principles is referred to as REST.
• Client-Server à Here we separate the UI concerns from data
storage concerns. It helps
portability of UI interfaces and the scalability of server components.
• Stateless à If the session state is to be maintained, it
has to be on the client. This means that a request has to fully propagate all the information from the client to the server and should not use the server
context.
• Cacheable à Cache constraint is something propagated
back from the response. If the response states that it’s cacheable, then the client can
cache the response for the same type of request, and use the response.
• Uniform Interface à
