Summary

In this chapter, we talked about the various  HTTP methods and when each one of them should be used. We also discussed the principles of RESTful services. All elements presented in this chapter and the upcoming chapters will be applied in the case study.

We also covered the general idea of HTTP methods and verbs based on examples with JSON. The REST architectural style was described based on six constraints.

In the next chapter, we will present the best practices related to RESTful design such as API endpoint organization, different ways to expose an API service, how to handle large datasets, naming conventions, the HTTP status codes, and API versioning.