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Advantages of using rest api in SharePoint. The advantages of using REST is that you don’t have to add references to any SharePoint 2013 libraries or client assemblies. Instead, you make HTTP requests to the appropriate endpoints to retrieve or update SharePoint entities, such as webs, lists, and list items.
You need to construct a RESTful HTTP request, using the Open Data Protocol ( OData) standard. To access SharePoint resources using REST, construct a RESTful HTTP request, using the Open Data Protocol (OData) standard, which corresponds to the desired client object model API.
To access SharePoint resources using REST, construct a RESTful HTTP request, using the Open Data Protocol (OData) standard, which corresponds to the desired client object model API. Similarly if you want to retrieve all the items from a SharePoint list, you will use the below CSOM code.
How to make batch requests with REST APIs?
For details and links to code samples, see Make batch requests with the REST APIs. This topic assumes that you’re already familiar with the topics Get to know the SharePoint REST service and Complete basic operations using SharePoint REST endpoints. It doesn’t provide code snippets.
What are the advantages of using the rest interface?
The REST interface exposes all the SharePoint entities and operations that are available in the other SharePoint client APIs. One advantage of using REST is that you don’t have to add references to any SharePoint libraries or client assemblies.
For POST operations, any properties that are not required are set to their default values. If you attempt to set a read-only property as part of a POST operation, the service returns an exception. Use PUT and MERGE operations to update existing SharePoint objects.