RESTful Web Services: Principles, Patterns, Emerging Technologies

Pautasso, Cesare

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-7518-7_2

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“…The principles governing the design of REST APIs are in big part the result of architectural choices of the Web aimed at fostering scalability and robustness of networked, resourceoriented systems based on HTTP [7]. The core principles are [6,23]: Together, these principles explain the name "representational state transfer": interaction state is not stored on the server side; it is carried (transferred) by each request from the client to the server and encoded inside the representation of the resource the request refers to.…”

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“…Along with the general principles introduced above, a set of implementation best practices have emerged to guide the design of quality APIs [23,16,19,22]. These best practices address the main design aspects in REST APIs: (i) the modeling of resources, (ii) the identification of resources and the design of resource identifiers (URIs), (iii) the representation of resources, (iv) the definition of (HTTP) operations on resources, and (v) the interlinking of resources.…”

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“…For instance, while one provider may accompany an own API with a suitable WADL [10] description, another provider may instead not provide any description at all and require interested clients to navigate through and explore autonomously the resources managed by the API. Of course, if instead all APIs consistently followed the same principles and guidelines, this would result in design features (e.g., decoupling, reusability, tolerance to evolution) that would directly translate into savings in development and maintainance costs and time [18,23].…”

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confidence: 99%

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REST APIs: A Large-Scale Analysis of Compliance with Principles and Best Practices

Rodríguez

Báez

Daniel

et al. 2016

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Quickly and dominantly, REST APIs have spread over the Web and percolated into modern software development practice, especially in the Mobile Internet where they conveniently enable o✏oading data and computations onto cloud services. We analyze more than 78GB of HTTP tra c collected by Italy's biggest Mobile Internet provider over one full day and study how big the trend is in practice, how it changed the tra c that is generated by applications, and how REST APIs are implemented in practice. The analysis provides insight into the compliance of state-of-the-art APIs with theoretical Web engineering principles and guidelines, knowledge that a↵ects how applications should be developed to be scalable and robust. The perspective is that of the Mobile Internet.

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REST APIs: A Large-Scale Analysis of Compliance with Principles and Best Practices

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Daniel

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…An evaluation of RESTful Web services that are consumed from mobile devices is presented in [18] but this evaluation is limited to mobile Web service consumers and does not include mobile Web service providers. The concept of REST-based Mobile Web services is introduced in [22]and a comparison with SOAP is carried out in [19], [20]and [4]. On the other hand, implementation of mobile hosts based on REST is not addressed.…”

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Providing and Evaluating the Mobile Web Service Distribution Mechanisms Using Fuzzy Logic

AlShahwan¹,

Carrez²,

Moessner³

2012

JSW

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Abstract-providing adaptive resource intensive Web services from mobile hosts needs to be done in a rather light-weight manner to allow continuous service provisioning. Processing and communication will drain the battery rapidly; hence both should be kept at a minimum. This paper describes the outcomes of an investigation into offloading and migration mechanisms that facilitate provision of adaptive and distributed mobile Web services. The investigation goes through three phases. The first phase integrates these mechanisms with the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Representational State Transfer (REST) architectures producing extended mobile Web service frameworks. This phase is achieved by the implementation of a prototype that allows performance evaluation of both extended frameworks. The evaluation of the load and performance of the distributed services is taking place using resource intensive applications. The results presented show that basing distributed mobilehosted services on REST is more suitable than using SOAP as underlying Web service infrastructure. The second phase relies on the outperforming REST-based framework to examine four distinct strategies for mobile Web service distribution mechanisms. In the last phase, evaluation results of the second phase are interpreted as Fuzzy Logic rules. These rule sets are used to trigger and control offloading schemes.

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“…In general, our approach generates executable clients for remote APIs that are formally deined in terms of OpenAPI [10] speciications, which has been proposed as a machine-readable format for describing the architecture of services ofered as RESTful remote APIs [11]. Moreover, resilience is achieved by specifying service policies, such as rate limits and pagination, and handling them, as well as network failures and response caching, accordingly and in a graceful and transparent manner.…”

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confidence: 99%

Restmule

Pina

Barmpis

Neubauer

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories

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Mining data from remote repositories, such as GitHub and StackExchange, involves the execution of requests that can easily reach the limitations imposed by the respective APIs to shield their services from overload and abuse. Therefore, data mining clients are left alone to deal with such protective service policies which usually involves an extensive amount of manual implementation efort. In this work we present RestMule, a framework for handling various service policies, such as limited number of requests within a period of time and multi-page responses, by generating resilient clients that are able to handle request rate limits, network failures, response caching, and paging in a graceful and transparent manner. As a result, RestMule clients generated from OpenAPI speciications (i.e. standardized REST API descriptors), are suitable for intensive data-fetching scenarios. We evaluate our framework by reproducing an existing repository mining use case and comparing the results produced by employing a popular hand-written client and a RestMule client. CCS CONCEPTS• Information systems → RESTful web services; • Software and its engineering → Reusability; Error handling and recovery;

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RESTful Web Services: Principles, Patterns, Emerging Technologies

Cited by 83 publications

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REST APIs: A Large-Scale Analysis of Compliance with Principles and Best Practices

REST APIs: A Large-Scale Analysis of Compliance with Principles and Best Practices

Providing and Evaluating the Mobile Web Service Distribution Mechanisms Using Fuzzy Logic

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