Nov 10, 2010 · Wondering what the differences between REST and JSON APIs are, how you interface with them, and how to go about parsing the results. My goal is to build a small application for my android phone to tell me when the next train will get to the subway station by my house, using the developer API provided by the transit agency.

JSON-RPC is quick and easy to consume, but as mentioned resources and parameters are tightly coupled and it tends to rely on verbs (api/deleteUser, api/addUser) using GET/ POST where-as REST provides loosely coupled resources (api/users) that in a HTTP REST API relies on several HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE).

Nov 13, 2020 · You can use OpenAPI to describe API's, and JSON:API is a standard to structure your apis. If you use JSON:API, you can still use OpenAPI to describe it. So OpenAPI's goal is really to provide a full description on how your API can be called, and what operations are available. JSON:API gives you a strong opinion on how to structure it.

Aug 20, 2014 · A REST API can have arguments in several places: In the request body - As part of a JSON body, or other MIME type; In the query string - e.g., /api/resource?p1=v1&p2=v2; As part of the URL path - e.g., /api/resource/v1/v2; What are the best practices and considerations of choosing between 1 and 2 above? 2 vs 3 is covered here.

Dec 27, 2021 · From Roy Fielding's blog here's a set of ways to check if you're building a HTTP API or a REST API: API designers, please note the following rules before calling your creation a REST API: A REST API should not be dependent on any single communication protocol, though its successful mapping to a given protocol may be dependent on the ...

Jun 23, 2017 · JSON API: JSON API was originally drafted by Yehuda Katz in May 2013. This first draft was extracted from the JSON transport implicitly defined by Ember Data’s REST adapter. The current stable version of the spec is 1.0. The JSON API spec is implemented for the majority of programming languages, for both the client and server sides.

May 9, 2021 · There is no comparison in REST and API, REST is an API type. API, in general, is a set of protocols deployed over an application software to communicate with other software components (Like browser interacting with servers) and provide an interface to services which the application software offers to several live consumers.

Apr 13, 2021 · REST (REpresentational State Transfer) describes a way how a clients and servers interact with each other. REST communication typically bases on HTTP protocol (but that isn't a requirement) and requests are made to a resource URI, possibly containing additional request data, and replies can be anything: HTML, XML, JSON, CSV, plain-text or even raw binary

Dec 22, 2011 · You can use JSON as part of the request data as the OP had stated all three options work. The OP needs to support JSON input as it had to support contain complex structural content. However, think of it this way... are you making a request to do something or are you just sending what is basically document data and you just happen to use the ...

Jul 11, 2017 · it looks like JSON-RPC over http utilizing only the POST method. Yes, it does. The way I'm used to doing is sending a POST request to 'users/' with a request body when registering a new user, sending a GET request to 'users/1' to retrieve a user information, etc.