What is resource in endpoint?
The terms resource and endpoint are often used synonymously. The term resource is focused on the data set that is returned by a request. Now, the same resource can often be accessed by multiple different endpoints. Also the same endpoint can return different resources, depending on a query string.
What makes an endpoint RESTful?
A REST Service Endpoint is an endpoint which services a set of REST resources. As can be seen, all of the resources are handled by one server, so the base URL for the REST Service Endpoint in this example would be http://myServer:9080/RESTServices/library/.
How to work with multiple resources in a REST API?
To work with multiple resources with a REST APIs, you definitely need to know how to work properly with a single one. This quick reminder is there to show how we use the HTTP protocol in REST APIs to express what we want to do and what happened in a clear and consistent way when working with a single resource:
What’s the difference between resource and endpoint in rest?
In terms of REST, these are just locations of different resources. The endpoint part you’ve tried to account for as some other part of the URL. It’s because you’re a programmer and you’re thinking of how its implemented, as a piece of code at a single action method.
Which is an example of a REST URL?
I have a question related to REST url design. I found some relevant posts here: Different RESTful representations of the same resource and here: RESTful url to GET resource by different fields but the responses are not quite clear on what the best practices are and why. Here’s an example. I have REST urls for representing “users” resource.
Which is an example of a service endpoint?
All of the above could be considered service endpoints, but only the bottom group would be considered resources, RESTfully speaking. The top group is not expressive regarding the content it provides. A REST request is like a sentence composed of nouns (resources) and verbs (HTTP methods): GET (method) the user named johnny (resource).