Basic REST Workflow
This section describes a typical REST development workflow.
The basic workflow associated with REST services
1. Identify all of the conceptual entities that you want to expose as services.
2. Create a URL to each resource.
3. Categorize your resources according to their HTTP verb (or method). HTTP verbs include:
Verb | Typical use |
GET | Read operations |
POST | Insert and update operations |
PUT | Insert and update operations |
DELETE | Delete operations |
Resources accessed using GET should return a representation of the resource, but not modify it.
4. Specify the format of the response data.