RESTful API

REST stands for Representational State Transfer. It is also referred to as RESTful API. It is an architectural style of exposing a web service. It services a request mainly over HTTP using GET, POST, PUT, and delete delivery methods. We will discuss these Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) methods in the subsequent section.

RESTful web service gets a request using a HTTP URL. Other related information such as authorization data will be passed on along with its header. Then it's up to the REST service provider to return results in whichever format suits them, but it is recommended to provide a response of a REST API call in a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) object. Almost all the publicly available REST API follow the same standards. 

We will now explore different types of request methods that we can utilize while making a HTTP request.

HTTP request methods

As discussed earlier, there are mainly four methods using which REST API receives a request. These are as follows:

GET

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