Sebastian Jakowski

Rest API best practices During creating an http api we should remember about few rules. As a API designers we must know how to name our endpoints. When we have a library which contains users and their books. As a collection we should use a plural form of verb like books and users. Below we can find examples of endpoints for certain activity and strict HTTP methods Add new book: /users/{userId}/books/{bookId} POST Get book: /users/{userId}/books/{bookId} GET Edit book: /users/{userId}/books/{bookId} PUT Remove book: /users/{userId}/books/{bookId} DELETE   Status codes 200 OK 201 Created 202 Accepted - request has been accepted but not completed. 204 Non content - the request is correct but no content in response body. 400 Bad request 401 Unauthorized 403 Forbidden 404 Not found 408 Request time out 409 - Conflict - duplicate data or invalid data state would occur. 500 Internal server error 501 Not implemented 503 Service unavailable    I th...