REST API Suh
From Coder Merlin
Within these castle walls be forged Mavens of Computer Science ...
— Merlin, The Coder
REST is not a protocol or standard, it is a set of requirements which must be followed in order to be compliant. There are six requirements for an API to be compliant.
- Standardized API requests: any and all API requests should follow a specific format - Independent Applications: the applications run by the client and by the server should be completely independent of each other - Requests need all possible information which would be relevant to carrying it out - System cant know which step in transferring information it is in
