RESTful Web Services
""Every developer working with the Web needs to read this book.""-- David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Rails framework ""RESTful Web Services finally provides a practical roadmap for constructing services that embrace the Web, instead of trying to route around it...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sebastopol :
O'Reilly Media
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627006606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; The Web Is Simple; Big Web Services Are Not Simple; The Story of the REST; Reuniting the Webs; What's in This Book?; Administrative Notes; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Enabled; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. The Programmable Web and Its Inhabitants; Kinds of Things on the Programmable Web; HTTP: Documents in Envelopes; Method Information; Scoping Information; The Competing Architectures; RESTful, Resource-Oriented Architectures; RPC-Style Architectures; REST-RPC Hybrid Architectures
- The Human Web Is on the Programmable WebTechnologies on the Programmable Web; HTTP; URI; XML-RPC; SOAP; WS-*; WSDL; WADL; Leftover Terminology; Chapter 2. Writing Web Service Clients; Web Services Are Web Sites; Wrappers, WADL, and ActiveResource; del.icio.us: The Sample Application; What the Sample Clients Do; Making the Request: HTTP Libraries; Optional Features; Ruby: rest-open-uri and net/http; Python: httplib2; Java: HttpClient; C#: System.Web.HTTPWebRequest; PHP: libcurl; JavaScript: XMLHttpRequest; The Command Line: curl; Other Languages; Processing the Response: XML Parsers
- Ruby: REXML, I GuessPython: ElementTree; Java: javax.xml, Xerces, or XMLPull; C#: System.Xml.XmlReader; PHP; JavaScript: responseXML; Other Languages; JSON Parsers: Handling Serialized Data; Clients Made Easy with WADL; Chapter 3. What Makes RESTful Services Different?; Introducing the Simple Storage Service; Object-Oriented Design of S3; A Few Words About Buckets; A Few Words About Objects; What If S3 Was a Standalone Library?; Resources; HTTP Response Codes; An S3 Client; The Bucket List; The Bucket; The S3 Object; Request Signing and Access Control; Signing a URI; Setting Access Policy
- Using the S3 Client LibraryClients Made Transparent with ActiveResource; Creating a Simple Service; An ActiveResource Client; A Python Client for the Simple Service; Parting Words; Chapter 4. The Resource-Oriented Architecture; Resource-Oriented What Now?; What's a Resource?; URIs; URIs Should Be Descriptive; The Relationship Between URIs and Resources; Addressability; Statelessness; Application State Versus Resource State; Representations; Deciding Between Representations; Links and Connectedness; The Uniform Interface; GET, PUT, and DELETE; HEAD and OPTIONS; POST
- Creating subordinate resourcesAppending to the resource state; Overloaded POST: The not-so-uniform interface; Safety and Idempotence; Safety; Idempotence; Why safety and idempotence matter; Why the Uniform Interface Matters; That's It!; Chapter 5. Designing Read-Only Resource-Oriented Services; Resource Design; Turning Requirements Into Read-Only Resources; Figure Out the Data Set; General Lessons; Split the Data Set into Resources; General Lessons; Name the Resources; Encode Hierarchy into Path Variables; No Hierarchy? Use Commas or Semicolons; Map URIs; Scale
- Algorithmic Resource? Use Query Variables
