I noticed this question a couple of days late, but I feel that I can add some insight. I hope this can be helpful towards your RESTful venture. Point 1: Am I understanding it right? You understood right. That is a correct representation of a RESTful architecture. You may find the following matrix from Wikipedia … Read more
A great resource to pick the correct HTTP error code for your API: http://www.codetinkerer.com/2015/12/04/choosing-an-http-status-code.html An excerpt from the article: Where to start: 2XX/3XX: 4XX: 5XX:
Unfortunately, there are a lot of misinformation and misconceptions around REST. Not only your question and the answer by @cmd reflect those, but most of the questions and answers related to the subject on Stack Overflow. SOAP and REST can’t be compared directly, since the first is a protocol (or at least tries to be) … Read more