Rest_Restful

Question 1

is an architectural style for designing networked applications. It was introduced by Roy Fielding in his doctoral dissertation in 2000.

Answer 1

REST
Representational State Transfer

Question 2

refers to web services or
APIs that are built adhering to the principles and constraints of REST.

Answer 2

RESTFUL

Question 3

8 HTTP methods

Answer 3

1. GET
2. POST
3. PUT
4. DELETE
5. PATCH
6. HEAD
7. TRACE
8. OPTION

Question 4

means that each request from a client to a server is independent of any other request.

Answer 4

Statelessness

Question 5

means that the server retains information about the client’s state across multiple requests.

Answer 5

Statefulness

Question 6

Characteristics of Statelessness
(idea lang)

Answer 6

• Independence
• Scalability
• Simplicity
• Reliability

Question 7

Characteristics of Statefullness
(idea lang)

Answer 7

• Session Managament
• Complexity
• Scalability (both sila ng statelessness)
• User Experience

Question 8

Retrieve data from a server.

Answer 8

GET

Question 9

Submit data to be processed to a specified resource.

Answer 9

POST

Question 10

Update a resource or create a new resource at a specified URL.

Answer 10

PUT

Question 11

Remove a resource from the server.

Answer 11

DELETE

Question 12

Partially update a resource.

Answer 12

PATCH

Question 13

Retrieve the headers for a resource, without the response body.

Answer 13

HEAD

Question 14

Describe the communication options for the target resource.

Answer 14

OPTIONS

Question 15

Perform a message loop-back test along the path to the target resource.

Answer 15

TRACE

Question 16

are issued by a server in response to a client’s request made to the server. They help to identify whether the request was successfully processed or if there were any errors.

Answer 16

HTTP status codes

Question 17

These codes indicate that the request was received and understood and that the process is continuing.

Answer 17

Informational (1xx)

Question 18

These codes indicate that the request was successfully received, understood, and accepted.

Answer 18

Success (2xx)

Question 19

These codes indicate that the client must take additional action to complete the request.

Answer 19

Redirection (3xx)

Question 20

These codes indicate that the client seems to have made an error.

Answer 20

Client Error (4xx)

Question 21

These codes indicate that the server failed to fulfill a valid request.

Answer 21

Server Error (5xx)

Question 22

is a string of characters used to identify a resource on the Internet.

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Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)

Question 23

Key Components of a URI (5):

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1. Scheme
2. Authority
3. Path
4. Query
5. Fragment

Question 24

Tools develop and test REST APIs? (IDEs and Development Environments)

Answer 24

1. Visual Studio Code
2. Postman
3. Insomnia

Question 25

Tools develop and test REST APIs? (API Design and Documentation)

Answer 25

1. Swagger/ OpenAPI Generator
2. Apiary

Question 26

Tools develop and test REST APIs? (Testing and Validation)

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1. JUnit/ TestNG
2. Rest-Assured

Question 27

Tools develop and test REST APIs? (Mock Servers)

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• WireMock
• MockServer

Question 28

Tools develop and test REST APIs? (Misc. Tools)

Answer 28

• Curl
• HTTPie

Question 29

Tools develop and test REST APIs? (Integrated Solutions)

Answer 29

• Swagger UI/ Redoc
• Docker

Question 30

are widely used across various industries and applications due to their simplicity, scalability, and flexibility.

Answer 30

REST APIs

Question 31

Some real-world examples of APIs (just a few ideas lang)

Answer 31

• Facebook API
• Paypal API
• Shopify API
• Google Cloud API
• Booking.com API
• Coinbase API