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REST Client : Approaches to Implementation
I have covered a couple of REST topics previously, Who Needs REST? and Now for the REST of the Story. I started playing around with a client library used to consume rest services and discuss the experience below.
The approaches
My first approach was to create a version of the client using a strategy pattern. By using [...]
Now for the REST of the story
What is REST?
When boiled down, REST is an architectural style that defines a set of constraints. These constrains describe what HTTP and the World Wide Web are based on. These constraints can be defined as follows (list and image below used from A Brief Introduction to REST):
Give every “thing” (resources) an ID
Link things together
Use [...]
Who needs REST?
I have been reading a bunch of online articles about REST (REpresentational State Transfer) which was first discussed in Roy Thomas Fielding’s Dissertation ‘Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architecture’. Though in this body of work Fielding never argues that either REST or HTTP constituted a sufficient basis for a web services architecture, [...]
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