When to use restful web service
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When to use restful web service(In which scenario). Why do we need to choose restful web service.
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RAJAN CRP
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This is an interview question.
When to use restful web service(In which scenario). Why do we need to choose restful web service.
Regards,
RAJAN CRP
#759248
Hi
Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style having the following features.
Representations
Messages
URIs
Uniform interface
Stateless
Links between resources
Caching
In the REST architectural style, resources are accessed using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) like MVC style.
Designed to use a stateless communication
protocol(HTTP).
Regards
Sridhar.
DNS Member.
"Hope for the best.. Prepare for the worst.."
Sridhar Thota.
Editor: DNS Forum.
Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style having the following features.
Representations
Messages
URIs
Uniform interface
Stateless
Links between resources
Caching
In the REST architectural style, resources are accessed using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) like MVC style.
Designed to use a stateless communication
protocol(HTTP).
Regards
Sridhar.
DNS Member.
"Hope for the best.. Prepare for the worst.."
Sridhar Thota.
Editor: DNS Forum.
#759255
REST is easier than SOAP, REST is more of a convention for structuring all of your methods, REST works more like you'd expect browser URLs
- When you want to return output in XML and JSON format
basically, it is depend upon What is your service abstracting from the client? What is the level of security required? Is your service a long running asynchronous process? And many other requirements will increase the level of complexity. Testability.
In all above scenario, apparently it easier to test RESTFul web services than their SOAP counter parts
REST is useful when to concentrate on Caching, HTTP Verb Binding, Security etc
Thanks
Koolprasd2003
Editor, DotNetSpider MVM
Microsoft MVP 2014 [ASP.NET/IIS]
- When you want to return output in XML and JSON format
basically, it is depend upon What is your service abstracting from the client? What is the level of security required? Is your service a long running asynchronous process? And many other requirements will increase the level of complexity. Testability.
In all above scenario, apparently it easier to test RESTFul web services than their SOAP counter parts
REST is useful when to concentrate on Caching, HTTP Verb Binding, Security etc
Thanks
Koolprasd2003
Editor, DotNetSpider MVM
Microsoft MVP 2014 [ASP.NET/IIS]
#759263
Hello CRPRAJAN,
Representational state transfer (REST) is a stateless software architecture that reads webpages containing XML. REST, which some architects view as a simpler alternative to Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web Services Description Language Web services, has become a popular Web application program interface (API) model over the years. A RESTful API, or RESTful Web service, uses both HTTP and REST.
REST should be used if it is very important for you to minimize the coupling between client and server components in a distributed application.
This may be the case if your server is going to be used by many different clients that you do not have control over. It may also be the case if you want to be able to update the server regularly without needing to update the client software.
Hope this will help you.
Regards,
Nirav Lalan
DNS Gold Member
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
Representational state transfer (REST) is a stateless software architecture that reads webpages containing XML. REST, which some architects view as a simpler alternative to Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web Services Description Language Web services, has become a popular Web application program interface (API) model over the years. A RESTful API, or RESTful Web service, uses both HTTP and REST.
REST should be used if it is very important for you to minimize the coupling between client and server components in a distributed application.
This may be the case if your server is going to be used by many different clients that you do not have control over. It may also be the case if you want to be able to update the server regularly without needing to update the client software.
Hope this will help you.
Regards,
Nirav Lalan
DNS Gold Member
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
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