What is the difference (if any) between a route and an endpoint in the context of a RESTful API?

3 different concepts here:

• Resource: {id: 42, type: employee, company: 5}
• Route: localhost:8080/employees/42
• Endpoint: GET localhost:8080/employees/42

You can have different endpoints for the same route, such as DELETE localhost:8080/employees/42. So endpoints are basically actions.

Also you can access the same resource by different routes such as localhost:8080/companies/5/employees/42. So a route is a way to locate a resource.

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