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RESTful API:

Important
Questions &
Answers

SWIPE
Q1

What is a REST API?


A REST (Representational State Transfer) API
(Application Programming Interface) is a set of
rules and conventions for building and
interacting with web services. It uses HTTP
methods like GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE
to operate on data.

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Q2

What does it mean


when an API is RESTful?
When an API is RESTful, it follows the
principles of REST. It is stateless, meaning each
request from a client to a server must contain
all the information needed to understand and
process the request.

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Q3

What are the HTTP


methods used in REST?
The main HTTP methods used in REST are
GET: Retrieves data.
POST: Sends data to be processed to a
specified resource.
PUT: Updates a current resource with new
data.
PATCH: Partially updates a current resource
with new data.
DELETE: Removes a specified resource.

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Q4

What is a Resource in
REST?
In REST, a resource is an object with a type,
associated data, relationships to other
resources, and a set of methods that operate
on it. It is similar to an object instance in an
object-oriented programming language.

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Q5

What is an API
endpoint?
An API endpoint is a specific URL or URI
(Uniform Resource Identifier) that an API
interacts with. For example, in a blogging API,
“/posts” might be the endpoint to retrieve all
blog posts.

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Q6

What is the purpose of


HTTP status codes in
RESTful APIs?
HTTP status codes are used to indicate the
success or failure of a request. For example,
200 means the request was successful, 404
means the requested resource was not found,
and 500 indicates a server error.

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Q7

What is CORS?
CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) is a
mechanism that allows many resources (e.g.,
fonts, JavaScript, etc.) on a web page to be
requested from another domain outside the
domain from which the resource originated.

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Q8

What are common


authentication methods
used in RESTful APIs?
Common methods include Basic Auth
(username and password), API keys, OAuth
(delegated authorization), and JWT (JSON Web
Tokens) for information exchange.

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Q9

How do you handle


errors in RESTful APIs?
Errors in RESTful APIs are typically handled by
returning appropriate HTTP status codes along
with meaningful error messages in the
response body.

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Q10

How do you document


RESTful API?
Documentation can be done manually, but
there are also tools like Swagger or Postman
that can generate interactive documentation
for your API.

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Q11

What are tools or


frameworks commonly
used for building
RESTful APIs?
There are many tools and frameworks to help
build RESTful APIs. Some popular ones include
Express.js for Node.js, Django and Flask for
Python, and Spring for Java.

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Thanks for
exploring REST
APIs with me!

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