There seems to be a lot of confusion about the correct http status code to return if the user tries to access a page which requires the user to login. So basically what status code will be send when I show the login page? I’m pretty sure we need to use a status code in … Read more
I’ve implemented a REST/CRUD backend by following this article as an example: http://coenraets.org/blog/2012/10/creating-a-rest-api-using-node-js-express-and-mongodb/ . I have MongoDB running locally, I’m not using MongoLabs. I’ve followed the Google tutorial that uses ngResource and a Factory pattern and I have query (GET all items), get an item (GET), create an item (POST), and delete an item (DELETE) … Read more
I am learning perl and python… at the same time, not my by design but it has to be done. Question: In a perl script I use(see below) at the head of my txt. #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; Is there something I should be doing on routine for my python scripts? Answer To … Read more
I want to create a resource that supports GET request in following way: /bar?key1=val1&key2=val2 I tried this code, but it is not working app = Flask(__name__) api = Api(app) class BarAPI(Resource): def get(key1, key2): return jsonify(dict(data=[key1, key2])) api.add_resource(BarAPI, ‘/bar’, endpoint=’bar’) Thanks! Answer Edit: reqparse is no longer the recommended way to do this with flask-restful!, … Read more
What are REST resources and how do they relate to resource names and resource representations? I read a few articles on the subject, but they were too abstract and they left me more confused than I was before. Is the following URL a resource? If it is, what is the name of that resource and … Read more
We are extending our HTTP REST API to allow clients to upload picture (for the purpose of this question, assuming binary data). So far we have only allowed simply strings in our API parameters. What is a good way to allow them to upload binary data? Would it be to request for the base64 encoded … Read more
I am developing a REST API using Spring 4. I would like to secure some of the endpoints using Spring Security, but based on what I’ve read this can be done with either @EnableGlobalMethodSecurity or @EnableWebSecurity. Unfortunately, the documentation that I have found for these don’t clearly explain what they do (or how they compare). … Read more
I have been struggling with choosing a methodology for creating a RESTful API with Django. None of the approaches I’ve tried seem to be the “silver” bullet. WAPI from http://fi.am is probably the closest to what I would like to accomplish, however I am not sure if it is acceptable in a true RESTful API … Read more
May be such problem is not new, but I didn’t find anything similar. I have such jQuery code: $.ajax({ url : (‘/people/’+id), type : ‘DELETE’, dataType : ‘json’, success : function(e) { table.getItems(currentPage); } }); My Rails controller looks like this: def destroy @person = Person.find(params[:id]) @person.destroy respond_to do |format| format.html { redirect_to(people_url) } format.json … Read more
What is difference between REST and WebService (SOAP), I looked at the facebook api, they use HTTP headers and some parameters (probably xml or non) and return result in xml, where else SOAP does exactly same, HTTP headers + xml parameters and returns headers + xml. REST also requires some authenticated token where else SOAP … Read more
