A quick recap

Having gone through in detail of various design guidelines in preceding sections, let's do a quick recap of the best practices as applicable to each of the key focus areas:

Focus area	Best practices
Resource	Expose only those resources that are required for implementing the business use case Naming of resource must be nouns; avoid using verbs Avoid using generic name for resources, rather be specific Resource names may include hyphens; avoid using underscores and other punctuation Limit the length of the resource URI not to exceed 2,000 characters Child resource must limit the scope to respective parent
Resource representation	Specify the content type supported by consumers of the API Avoid using multiple content type for a resource representation, JSON is becoming the de facto standard for content type, so avoid using XML Include Content-Type header...