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Release date | September 2013 |
Hi, I'd love to give you some honest feedback on REST APIs and how you've implemented yours.
Have you read any documentation on building REST APIs before? How to use HTTP methods and correctly build URIs? Obviously, REST is a set of guidelines and not a standard, so you haven't done anything wrong, but your API is currently not very REST-like at all. Allow me to explain:
/token
and not/get_token
. Your HTTP METHOD already defines the action you want to perform on thetoken
.book
resource that links to a list ofpage
resources. Obviously this isn't always practical, and your API might work better this way.The main points I'm trying to emphasise here is that REST is not a standard, but it is still a set of guidelines and REST APIs do not just mean you're using HTTP. Now - your API might work perfectly with good documentation and great for you (you built it, after all). Just consider the naming of the type of API before you share it. Someone who sees "this is a REST API" will be in for a shock because some parts of your API is not.
For further reading, I'd recommend RESTful Web APIs