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API Design

• What does REST stand for?

Representational State Transfer

• REST APIs are designed around a __ resources__.

• What is an identifer of a resource? Give an example.

A URI that uniquely identifies that resource

• What are the most common HTTP verbs?

GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE.

• What should the URIs be based on?

URIs should be based on nouns

• Give an example of a good URI.

https://eu1.locationiq.com/v1/search.php?key=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN&q=SEARCH_STRING&format=json

• What does it mean to have a ‘chatty’ web API? Is this a good or a bad thing?

A web API that have more requests, which is bad as it lower the performance.

• What status code does a successful GET request return?

status code 200 (OK)

• What status code does an unsuccessful GET request return?

404 (Not Found).

• What status code does a successful POST request return?

status code 200

• What status code does a successful DELETE request return?

status code 204