Many Web API designers claim their are RESTful, but their APIs have little in common with REST. What can be done to make a web service API truly RESTful?

This RESTful API quiz for developers will see how well you know RESTful web services and the history behind the architectural style.

While the URL path component is what should point directly at the server-side resource, many well-meaning developers fall into the trap of the RESTful parameters antipattern. RESTful parameters for ...

Generic REST interface definition for common OPC UA services (e.g., read, write, call). Standardized mapping of OPC UA service parameters to datatypes commonly used in RESTful APIs.

The Maps Engine API is a RESTful API, meaning that all requests to the API are HTTP requests. Thus, any programming language with an HTTP library can be used to query or modify data in this API.

The Maps Engine API is a RESTful API, meaning that all requests to the API are HTTP requests. Thus, any programming language with an HTTP library can be used to query or modify data in this API.

Introducing Cadl Microsoft has begun to move much of its API development to a language called Cadl, which helps you define API structures programmatically before compiling to OpenAPI definitions.