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		panzerboy on Feb 1, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Not to write a "REST" API Can you give an example of a nice REST API? I might have to create one soon and I need some inspiration. Thanks!

glassx on Feb 1, 2012 [–]

Maybe AtomPub? It respects HTTP methods, uses URIs to represent resources correctly, uses <links> to be discoverable (hypermedia), is self-descriptive, is stateful... It uses Atom/XML instead of JSON, but still...

(but please correct me if it isn't a good example)

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