Rest 概念

整理一下分享的ppt：

About URL

• identifies a web resource  

• Addressable

• many to one

• <scheme>:<scheme-specific-structure>

About representation 

• a view of a resource’s state at an instant in time. This viewis encoded in one or more transferable formats, such as XHTML,Atom , XML, JSON,plain text, MP3, or JPEG ….

The web verbs

• the set of verbs supported by HTTP—GET, POST, PUT, DELETE,OPTIONS, HEAD, TRACE, CONNECT, and PATCH

About Hypermedia

• Like state machine

• form of links

What is REST?

• Network Architectural style

• Coined by Roy Fielding in his Ph.D. dissertation in 2000

• Overview:

– Resourcesare defined and addressed

– Transmitsdomain-specific data over HTTP

– Doesnot have any SOAP messaging layer or HTTP cookies

REST is not a standard

• No W3C specification (EDIT: But there is an XML database thathas such an API: eXist )

• REST is built on the concepts:

– HTTP (transferringmechanism)

– URL (resource address)

– XML/HTML/GIF/JPEG (Resourcerepresentations)

– text/xml,text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg (MIME types)