Allowing client to select data to return via REST interface

I have a rest service that is essentially a proxy to a variety of other services. So if I call

What is the right HTTP method for upvoting?

From a RESTful point of view, what is the most appropriate HTTP method for the action of upvoting a forum post (like on StackExchange)?

Tomcat 7 vs. ehCache Standalone Server (Glassfish) Configuration with RESTful Web Services

My requirements consist of using ehCache to send and store data via RESTful web service calls. The data can be stored in-memory or via the filesystem…

How to do external API testing (blackbox)

Assume you are using APIs from a vendor, how to make sure their API is working as expected?

REST efficiency on count and sum methods

For example, if I have a Customer Transactions Table and I create a REST for it. The fields are: date, description, and total_amount.

When are RPC-ish approaches more appropriate than REST?

After watching this talk on REST, Reuse and Serendipity by Steve Vinoski, I wonder if there are business cases in greenfield projects for (XML-)RPC-ish setups, that REST could not solve in a better way.

Is this “anti-pattern” and should I stop using it or is this clever design?

I’ve basically stared to do the following when creating a REST service:

Represent actions(verbs) in REST URI

I have a print operation to perform for my customer documents.
I need the other standard operations to be performed as well, like add,update, delete.
so, I have following:

Versioned Resources to Improve Cacheability

Here’s an API concept which could be useful for performance optimisation. It’s an example of key-based cache expiry applied to a broader internet-wide context instead of the internal Memcached-style scenario it seems to be mostly used for.

PHP Framework for RESTful Web Service [closed]

Closed 10 years ago.