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Misar.Blog Podcast · August 18 · 9 min

A REST API Example You Can Paste: One Resource, Five Endpoints, Real Status Codes

A REST API Example You Can Paste: One Resource, Five Endpoints, Real Status Codes — by Misar.IO on Misar.Blog. From the article "A REST API Example You Can Paste: One Resource, Five Endpoints, Real Status Codes" by Misar.IO, published on Misar.Blog. In this episode: 0:00 A REST API Request Is an HTTP Method Plus a URL That Names a Thing 1:15 The Response Is an HTTP Status Code That Carries the Outcome 1:44 URLS Should Name Nouns and Methods Supply the Verb 2:29 GET /Notes Returns a Paginated Collection with Limit and Cursor Parameters 2:53 The List Lives Under ‘Data’ 3:20 GET /Notes/{id} Returns the Note Object Directly 3:57 POST /Notes Creates a New Note 4:33 POST Requests Are Not Idempotent 5:08 PATCH /Notes/{id} Updates Only the Supplied Fields 5:33 DELETE /Notes/{id} Returns 204 No Content with Literally Zero Bytes in the Body This episode is narrated by an AI voice from a written article. More episodes: The Architecture Decision I Regret Most How a Solo Founder Competes With a Whole Team I Tried Coding With Only AI for Two Weeks Related reads: The Planning Habit That Ended My Overwhelm Why I Write Tests Before I Write Code Now 🔔 Subscribe to every episode Read the article: https://www.misar.blog/@misar/articles/a-rest-api-example-you-can-paste-one-resource-five-endpoints-real-status-codes. Read the articles by this Author: https://www.misar.blog/@misar. Generated using: https://www.misar.ai (Misar.AI).

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A REST API Example You Can Paste: One Resource, Five Endpoints, Real Status Codes — by Misar.IO on Misar.Blog. From the article "A REST API Example You Can Paste: One Resource, Five Endpoints, Real Status Codes" by Misar.IO, published on Misar.Blog.

In this episode:
0:00 A REST API Request Is an HTTP Method Plus a URL That Names a Thing
1:15 The Response Is an HTTP Status Code That Carries the Outcome
1:44 URLS Should Name Nouns and Methods Supply the Verb
2:29 GET /Notes Returns a Paginated Collection with Limit and Cursor Parameters
2:53 The List Lives Under ‘Data’
3:20 GET /Notes/{id} Returns the Note Object Directly
3:57 POST /Notes Creates a New Note
4:33 POST Requests Are Not Idempotent
5:08 PATCH /Notes/{id} Updates Only the Supplied Fields
5:33 DELETE /Notes/{id} Returns 204 No Content with Literally Zero Bytes in the Body

This episode is narrated by an AI voice from a written article.


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Read the article: https://www.misar.blog/@misar/articles/a-rest-api-example-you-can-paste-one-resource-five-endpoints-real-status-codes.
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