RESTful design anti-patterns Far too often, you will see a supposedly RESTful system in which the designers have shoehorned every permutation of their API into a POST invocation. Just because you ...

With the RESTful API, the user cannot directly set the number of wins, losses or ties. The client can only use a POST invocation to increment values one at a time. This is not an idempotent function, ...

Let's start with a simple example. We'll need an existing REST API to work with. Browsing around on the Internet, I come across a REST API called Cat Facts. This API returns various facts about our ...