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In computing, POST is a request method supported by HTTP used by the World Wide Web. By design, the POST request method requests that a web server accepts the data enclosed in the body of the request message, most likely for storing it. [1] It is often used when uploading a file or when submitting a completed web form.
REST (Representational State Transfer) is a software architectural style that was created to guide the design and development of the architecture for the World Wide Web. REST defines a set of constraints for how the architecture of a distributed, Internet-scale hypermedia system, such as the Web, should behave.
The POST method can be used for sending partial updates to a resource. The main difference between the POST and PATCH methods is that the POST method can be used only when it is written to support the applications or the applications support its semantics whereas the PATCH method can be used in a generic way and does not require application ...
The HTTP/1.0 specification [49] defined the GET, HEAD, and POST methods as well as listing the PUT, DELETE, LINK and UNLINK methods under additional methods. However, the HTTP/1.1 specification [50] formally defined and added five new methods: PUT, DELETE, CONNECT, OPTIONS, and TRACE. Any client can use any method and the server can be ...
Introduces resources and allows requests for individual URIs (still all typically POST) for separate actions instead of exposing one universal endpoint (API). The API resources are still generalized but it is possible to identify the scope of each one. Level One design is not RESTful, yet it is organizing the API in the direction of becoming one.
A Web API is a development in Web services where emphasis has been moving to simpler representational state transfer (REST) based communications. [2] Restful APIs do not require XML-based Web service protocols ( SOAP and WSDL) to support their interfaces.
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@GET, @PUT, @POST, @DELETE and @HEAD specify the HTTP request type of a resource. @Produces specifies the response Internet media types (used for content negotiation). @Consumes specifies the accepted request Internet media types. In addition, it provides further annotations to method parameters to pull information out of the request.