14. Questions and Answers

In this section, I'll be adding common questions about REST, or real issues I've encountered while developing RESTful services.

If you have a question, feel free to post it as a comment on this page, or on any other relevant page in this tutorial.

Questions posted so far:

  1. How do I perform atomic operations using REST?
  2. How do I delete items using a REST API?
  3. How do I handle authentication in REST?

6 comments:

yamhill said...

I'd be interested in server side examples for Ruby, Python, Php, ... not just client side examples.

Dr. M. Elkstein said...

Hello yamhill,

Server-side, this is just your basic web-server program. Too long to discuss on this tutorial, and extremely well covered just about anywhere on the web. The only difference is that the output isn't user-facing HTML, it's machine-facing XML (or text, or whatever).

Amit Seal said...

Erm, considering the deletion of my previous comment, I guess that was a No.
Well, it would be more appreciated if you posted that no as a reply. But anyway, thank you for your time.

Akram Yakubov said...

I see that u did not talk about service discovery, I tried to do some research about service discovery and service registry. Because, UDDI is not suitable for this. Could you please give some suggestion, I am currently doing my thesis, it could very useful.

Dr. M. Elkstein said...

Sorry Akram, I'm not familiar with REST service discovery facilities (never needed one).

re said...

I read about WCF REST services. How do they differ from REST services?