Something to be careful about when designing a RESTful API is the conflation of GET and POST, as if they were the same thing. It’s easy to make this mistake with Django’s function-based views and CherryPy’s default dispatcher, although both frameworks now provide a way around this problem (class-based views and MethodDispatcher, respectively). HTTP-verbs are … Read more
This is a shorter and hopefully clearer answer… Yes, the endpoint is the URL where your service can be accessed by a client application. The same web service can have multiple endpoints, for example in order to make it available using different protocols.
I want to understand basic, abstract and correct architectural approach for networking applications in iOS There is no “the best”, or “the most correct” approach for building an application architecture. It is a very creative job. You should always choose the most straightforward and extensible architecture, which will be clear for any developer, who begin … Read more
Keith Elder nicely compares ASMX to WCF here. Check it out. Another comparison of ASMX and WCF can be found here – I don’t 100% agree with all the points there, but it might give you an idea. WCF is basically “ASMX on stereoids” – it can be all that ASMX could – plus a … Read more
You can access any REST API with PHPs cURL Extension. However, the API Documentation (Methods, Parameters etc.) must be provided by your Client! Example: // Method: POST, PUT, GET etc // Data: array(“param” => “value”) ==> index.php?param=value function CallAPI($method, $url, $data = false) { $curl = curl_init(); switch ($method) { case “POST”: curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1); … Read more
I built one of the first SOAP servers, including code generation and WSDL generation, from the original spec as it was being developed, when I was working at Hewlett-Packard. I do NOT recommend using SOAP for anything. The acronym “SOAP” is a lie. It is not Simple, it is not Object-oriented, it defines no Access … Read more
*nix provides a nice little command which makes our lives a lot easier. GET: with JSON: curl -i -H “Accept: application/json” -H “Content-Type: application/json” -X GET http://hostname/resource with XML: curl -H “Accept: application/xml” -H “Content-Type: application/xml” -X GET http://hostname/resource POST: For posting data: curl –data “param1=value1¶m2=value2” http://hostname/resource For file upload: curl –form “fileupload=@filename.txt” http://hostname/resource RESTful … Read more
Use request.args to get parsed contents of query string: from flask import request @app.route(…) def login(): username = request.args.get(‘username’) password = request.args.get(‘password’)
The limit is dependent on both the server and the client used (and if applicable, also the proxy the server or the client is using). Most web servers have a limit of 8192 bytes (8 KB), which is usually configurable somewhere in the server configuration. As to the client side matter, the HTTP 1.1 specification even … Read more
Android does not provide any sort of SOAP library. You can either write your own, or use something like kSOAP 2. As you note, others have been able to compile and use kSOAP2 in their own projects, but I haven’t had to. Google has shown, to date, little interest in adding a SOAP library to … Read more