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My Project
Aug. 12th, 2011 05:23 pmI've been hired to build a website. It will contain a form through which users can submit a description of a web services API which conforms to constraints of REST. ( Cut for jargon. )
I have two weeks to get this done. The design and user interface is trivial. Learning the web framework and writing the code will take an intermediate amount of time. The majority of the time I expect to spend educating myself about REST enough to include enough in the database schema. For a couple of years I have been reading brief articles and Wikipedia entries about web APIs and REST, but have no experience using either of them in any capacity.
My employer advised me to do a Google Images search on "REST API" and look at the UML diagrams there; but I don't know how to interpret the boxes and arrows, and most of the terms are jargon which I don't know.
I've been searching around various Google hits on the relevant search terms, but is there some kind of comprehensive catalog of what can go into a RESTful web-services API?
I have two weeks to get this done. The design and user interface is trivial. Learning the web framework and writing the code will take an intermediate amount of time. The majority of the time I expect to spend educating myself about REST enough to include enough in the database schema. For a couple of years I have been reading brief articles and Wikipedia entries about web APIs and REST, but have no experience using either of them in any capacity.
My employer advised me to do a Google Images search on "REST API" and look at the UML diagrams there; but I don't know how to interpret the boxes and arrows, and most of the terms are jargon which I don't know.
I've been searching around various Google hits on the relevant search terms, but is there some kind of comprehensive catalog of what can go into a RESTful web-services API?
