Questions tagged [rest]
REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is a simple stateless architecture that generally runs over HTTP. It is an "architectural style" that basically exploits the existing technology and protocols of the Web, including HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and XML. REST is easy to use than the well-known SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) approach.
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Fluent LinkedIn REST API client interface design
There is a handful of LinkedIn clients written in C# on the NuGet package library, but as far as I can tell, most only do authentication via LinkedIn. I found a couple which offer a LinkedIn REST API ...
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Simple AngularJS controller for REST API
We record software builds from our build machine into a database and for practice purposes I'm building a little web dashboard for it.
The API is REST (WebApi) and provides access to query for ...
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Bitex - Cryptocurrency Exchange API Framework for Python - Round 2
This is a follow up to my previous review request.
BitEx is a Python module I've been working on for a little over 9 months now, as a side project. It was published 6 months ago on GitHub, and as I ...
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Function to conect to Firebase Rest API via Access VBA
This is the application for small school, which will store students' info in Firebase and also retrieve data from Firebase. I am using JSON Parser to parse the data and save the same in Access tables.
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A PHP API which has an endpoint for processing a user's facebook login details
I'm working on a PHP API for my angular JS Phonegap application.
At the moment I'm focusing on working with a user's facebook public profile data.
I'll explain the process a little first:
The user ...
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Registration, login and logout in a Grails application
I'm completely new to Groovy, but have many years of Java experience, and recently I have started working on a Grails application, currently it contains the following:
User and Person domain classes
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Bitex - Cryptocurrency Exchange API Framework for Python
BitEx is a Python module I've been working on for a little over 9 months now, as a side project. It was published 6 months ago on GitHub, and as I edge closer to my 1.0 release, I wanted to take the ...
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TDD tests for every view and its permissions in a REST API
I am currently developing a Django Rest Framework API with TDD. I have 15 tests and counting for two views, which doesn't seem right to me. It takes me a lot of time to write the tests and a lot of ...
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Executing a URL using RestTemplate
I am working on a project in which I construct a URL with a valid hostname (but not a blocked hostname) and then execute that URL using RestTemplate from my main ...
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Lock for preventing concurrent access in client data
I am trying to implement lock by which I don't want to have reads from happening whenever I am doing a write.
Here is my ClientData class in which I am using ...
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Unit testing a REST API in Go
I am learning Go by writing a simple CRUD REST API using gotilla/mux and Gorm.
I would like to get some feedback on the application code and on unit tests in particular. Please suggest me what to ...
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Build a set of REST interfaces using Symfony framework
I have got a technical challenge from a company but they reject my code and I'm not sure how to do this challenge in a more efficient way so I'm here to get some guidance.
The Technical challenge was:...
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Extendable REST-Client
I've been working on a REST-client. The client itself provides only very basic and generic functionality. Everything else is done with extensions. Its raw usage does not need to be convenient but ...
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Using RestTemplate with HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory in a multithreaded environment
I am working on a project in which I need to make an HTTP URL call to my server, running RESTful service, which returns the response as a JSON String. I am using <...
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Small console app to execute some remote scripts
I'm learning F# and functional programming, from a background in C# and imperative/OOP. I've ported a small, one-off console app from C# to F#. The port worked (the app behaves the same way), but I'd ...
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Elegantly handle github API requests exceptions
I have this code which creates a team using the github API and returns the team-id(success) or -1(failure).
My problem is with the error handling. When the request responses with an error status code ...
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JSON REST client proxy generator
Trying to create something really lightweight. Sources are on GitHub.
To create a proxy we need to define an interface first, e.g.:
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MVC structured REST API in PHP
This approach might be wrong or right, if you have something to add please correct me since i want to learn!
The past few weeks I'v been trying to build a MVC structure REST API in PHP.And this is my ...
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REST API to list books, where null means "everything"
My company has a REST API, and one design issue that has come up a few times is that we use null to indicate "get everything".
For example /api/books?genre=romance ...
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ASP.NET REST controller with try-catch error handling
Yesterday someone guided me through this article and I'm wondering whether I should use try-catch implementation or not? I have the following code below which is actually a RESTful service and I have ...
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Generic method to call API functions with simple retrial on errors
I have to develop a small security management application that relies on a Web API. Based on that API, I have generated the REST client classes (Open API generator), but I still have to code on top to ...
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Star Wars API GET request in Python
I am working with a Star Wars API from http://swapi.co/api/. Here's the problem that I was working on for the Star Wars API problem. And the code works and prints out the exact output that I desired. ...
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Python wrapper class around HTTP API
I wrote this little class to wrap around a work-in-progress, poorly documented API and I'd like to know what else can be improved. I feel like there's a lot of repetition in the functions and I'd love ...
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Python script to get and save data from a web API
I'm working as a system administrator (sort of), but learning Python on the side.
Life gave me a chance to apply that knowledge, since our organization is being provided cloud email service, and it ...
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Spring Boot RESTful service
I have developed this restful service using spring boot. Please look at the code if there is something to change to be more consistently.
Resource
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Single class which holds response and error message
I am working on a library which will make HTTP call to my rest service basis on inputs passed to this library. And whatever response comes back from service whether it is successful response or ...
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Controller for classrooms and students
The actions I'm wondering about are members, add_student, and remove_student. They work ...
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Speeding up Excel distance calculation using Bing API calls
I am writing VBA in Excel to calculate the distance between an employee's home address and work address using Bing Maps API calls. The process follows this general flow:
1) Convert the employee's ...
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Library to be used against a specific REST web service
I have been trying to generate a basic library that I can use at work, to call different REST calls towards a software vendor that we are using.
I would love someone's opinion on it, and what I could ...
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Curl-based REST client library (round 2)
This is a second iteration on an earlier review - cURL based REST client library
I have done some refactoring to split out the REST HTTP response into it's own class from what was in the previous ...
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Java secured cookie - security issues?
I tested the play framework the last days and had mixed feelings about it. In the end, I don't use play for my new REST project. I use http://www.sparkjava.com as minimal server setup.
But I really ...
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Curl-based REST Client Library (round 3)
This code review request relates to this code review which covers the basic single REST call use case in this REST client library.
This code review covers the classes and unit tests for the multiple ...
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User persistence and login flow
I have a Java project that copies files and folders to a user's space on the cloud service using a RESTful API. The login design is getting very complicated, and I wanted advice on how to simplify/re-...
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Django Rest Framework Totaling API values in different ways
I am working on a stats website for my softball teams that I manage/play for.
Here is my current Stat model:
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Python REST API clients
I am working on a project right now, where we need to search different APIs, then clean & persists data to database and finally pushing to Elasticsearch.
The high level code looks like this:
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Powershell cmdlet authenticating to Aerohive API
After dipping my toes in PowerShell for over a year i think it is time for creating a real cmdlet. My first mission was creating a regular PS script to take in a .csv and create a wifi account using ...
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Tracking Containers in a Train Station
This is a time line for control over the events of some containers in a train station.
It gets all the data to build the time line by getting a JSON from a database via REST service. The app resets ...
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HttpClient reusable instance for simple calls on another methods
I wrote a HttpClient instantiable class that will be used as reference to simplify API calls in other methods inside other classes, so the user could call it in a ...
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Basic API wrapper around a Restful service
I'm writing a basic wrapper around a restful service that returns a list of Stores. I'm using RestSharp which I'm injecting into the class.
Naturally, I want to make it completely testable (that's a ...
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Request dispatcher for PHP JSON web service
Below you can find the constructor method and related fields of the main class of my REST API (note that the class contains more code than displayed) written in PHP 7.1. It does various things with ...
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REST API using PHP
I am trying to write an REST API using php from scratch which I am gonna use to play with Angular.js. It is working fine now and I need your opinions on the things I have done in this code to improve ...
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Testable REST API Client
GitHub and NuGet
Allows to invoke public/private REST API just by defining an interface. 200 lines of C# in total.
Demo
Sample API is publicly available at http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com:
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Restful API Building: Dependency injection + factory patterns
I am learning OOP. I feel I have a grasp of basic dependency injection in that as a rule of thumb, you pass an object to a method rather than the parameters to create an object. As such, never create ...
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Throttling REST requests in C#
I'm rather new to C#, and found relevant subclassing examples surprisingly hard to come by. I've whipped up this class that appears to work, but am pretty sure this is not optimal:
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Rest API for realtime statistics of last 60 seconds
The following code is my solution to a code challenge I submitted a few weeks ago. I got rejected straight away with no feedback and I've wondering why.
I'm interested in hearing if there is any ...
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RESTful APIs (Create, Read) with flask-restful
I wrote this simple API to be able to send logs from the client to MongoDB. Even though this works and fits my need, I would like to point out some concerns that I have regarding the following:
Is ...
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Constructing a URL for execution using RestTemplate
I am working on a project in which I construct a URL with a valid hostname (but not a blocked hostname) and then execute that URL using RestTemplate from my main ...
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A generic REST API consuming Python library
I wrote this, which essentially acts as a single library for all possible REST services.
Here is the main file, as of alpha version 1:
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External API calls from a C#.NET client
I have a simple c# mvc client that calls an external api..here is my attempt
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Avoiding code repeating in RESTful APIS PHP
Since my last question related to this I have managed to create a working base and to understand how MVC works.
I'm writing RESTful APIS in PHP, they serve the purpose but I see that my code is ...
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