FIT2095 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Application Programming Interface, Representational State Transfer, Hypertext Transfer Protocol

• School: Monash University
• Department: Information Technology
• Course: FIT2095
• Professor: Nawfal Ali

Document Summary

Uses http requests to perform crud operations on data. Vocabulary of http operations (get, put, delete) Independent of the type of platform or languages. Due to being based on standard http operations. Methods which indicate the type of action to be performed on the resources. Requests the server to create a resource in the database. Non-idempotent - multiple requests will have di erent e ects. Requests the server to update resource or create the resource (if it doesn"t exist) Idempotent - multiple requests will have the same e ects. Requests the resources, or its instance, should be removed from the database. When a client sends an http request to the server, the client should get some feedback (pass or failed) Develop frontend pages that generate http requests. Needs a lot of time and resources. Using restful clients that simulate the silent side.