It’s easy to get sloppy in your APIs, so here’s a refresher on how to be correctly RESTful in your client scripts Recently, I was trying to write a little client script for Apache Solr.

If you want to inspect the JSON a service ... to access a remote API, as both of these frameworks have built-in libraries to write RESTful web service clients in Java. But this level of extravagance ...

These days, the most common approach to REST doesn’t work the way it was originally conceived. Instead, developers typically use an HTTP API and JSON to ... For example, if you have an API ...

Again, the program will return a JSON-based representation of the score after the update. A better design would be to use JSON as the payload, but query parameters are used here for the sake of ...