What is REST API?
A RESTful API is an application program interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data.
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A RESTful API breaks down a transaction to create a series of small modules. Each module addresses a particular underlying part of the transaction. This modularity provides developers with a lot of flexibility.
How to set up Burti REST API?
Initial setup is rather complicated, so we do it for the costumer. However, there are some prerequisites that needs to be done, in order to set it up:
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curl "http://localhost:1402/Web_JSON_Composer.hal" -d @sample.get.data.txt > response.get1.json curl "http://localhost:1402/Web_JSON_Composer.hal" -d @sample.get.data2.txt > response.get2.json curl "http://localhost:1402/Web_JSON_UpdatingComposer.hal" -d @sample.post.data.txt > response.post.json |
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Custom built scripts/applications which can execute curl request commands.
The requests are as follows:
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Response file response.get2.json
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sample.post.json - made to the WRITE interface Web_JSON_UpdatingComposer.hal:
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