RESTful Rabbits

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REST

Representational State Transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia

systems such as the World Wide Web

http://roy.gbiv.com/pubs/dissertation/top.htm

HTTP Verbs

GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, OPTIONS, CONNECT, HEAD

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616

Resource Orientated Design

Nouns and Verbs

Nouns are resources you act upon

Verbs are what you do to those resources

Generally this means GET, POST, PUT and DELETE

No matter what web server you have, and no matter what web client I have, I know if I see a URL of your,

that I can retrieve the associated document using HTTP GET, with no advance co-ordination needed

other than agreement on the relevant specs

Cool Stuff

http://rest.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AnotherRestDescription

Flickr Bashing

Flickr API

GET /photos/garethrGET /people/garethr/contactsPUT /photos/garethrPUT /people/garethr/contacts/PUT /peopleGET /photos/garethr/tags

Flickr RESTful API?

201 Created

2xx Success

3xx Redirection

400 Bad Request401 Unathorized403 Forbidden404 Not Found410 Gone412 Precondition Failed

4xx Client Error

5xx Server Error

501 Not Implemented503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Rabbits?

Rabbits!

posright Position of the right ear between 0 and 16 posleft Position of the left ear between 0 and 16 ears=ok Send the position of the ears

http://api.nabaztag.com/vl/FR/api.jsp

Nabaztag API

GET /ears/leftGET /ears/rightPUT /ears/leftPUT /ears/rightPOST /mouthGET /name

Nabaztag RESTful API

A Rabbit called Cambridge

Microformats and REST sitting in a tree

Microformats for Write APIs

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Read Books

http://flickr.com/photos/lkfdesign/365335459/http://flickr.com/photos/sjaek/275710273/

http://flickr.com/photos/lost-moments/444960411/http://flickr.com/photos/listercat/1347862097/http://flickr.com/photos/misspepo/1338884925/

http://www.sourcebottle.net/

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