reading-notes

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  1. What does REST stand for?

    Representational State Transfer

  2. REST APIs are designed around a resources.

  3. What is an identifer of a resource? Give an example.

    A URI that uniquely identifies that resource. For example, the URI for a particular customer order might be:

    https://adventure-works.com/orders/1

  4. What are the most common HTTP verbs?

    POST, GET, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE

  5. Give an example of a good URI.

    https://adventure-works.com/orders

  6. What does it mean to have a ‘chatty’ web API? Is this a good or a bad thing?

    Bad thing

  7. What status code does a successful GET request return?

    A successful GET method typically returns HTTP status code

  8. What status code does a successful POST request return?

    HTTP status code 201

  9. What status code does a successful DELETE request return?

    If the delete operation is successful, the web server should respond with HTTP status code 204.