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When does a REST API stops being one in terms of state management?
As far as I understand, there is no certain boundaries for the RESTness of an API. However, I would like your help to understand how large and long (in terms of running time) a caching or state ...
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Is rebooting a server idempotent or not?
In his article RESTful Casuistry, Tim Bray claims that rebooting a server is not idempotent: But I don’t buy it, and here’s why. If I want to update some fields in an existing resource, I’m inclined ...
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Roy Fielding’s REST alternative to HTTP cookies
I struggle to understand Roy Fielding’s REST alternative to HTTP cookies, § 6.3.4.2 ‘Cookies’ and § 6.5.4.1 ‘Application State in a Network-Based System’ of his doctoral dissertation Architectural ...
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How do I delete items on the frontend that have been deleted on the backend?
I'm building a single page application with a timeline and loading those objects in from a paginated REST API. I'd like to delete objects that don't exist in the backend anymore or that have been ...
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HTTPSession for session state in web APIs?
We are building a set of web APIs. The web APIs are called by clients & can call each other. State is required by these APIs for the users session (e.g. shopping basket type stuff). The state ...
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Distributed cart state in microservices
We have legacy app which keeps state of a cart in local storage on a Frontend (this decision was made long time ago by other devs). The cart is cleared from local storage after 2 hours if it is not ...
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REST API: is it a violation of naming convention if a GET method changes the expiry of the a redis key?
I have proposed a REST API called 'getSessionState' which basically a backend API that retrieves some state info from a redis server and return to the clients. Because the state data is kept in a ...
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API design dilemma: to REST or not to REST
I'd like to design a REST API supporting: Login Temporary token generation The reason being there are a number of client-side REST libraries that would speed up development if used, as they take care ...
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sessions and stateless rest
I believe this question has been discussed to death. I was reading up on REST and it says that it has to be stateless. Yes i do understand there are application states and resource states. Taking ...
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