Rest Glossary
Browse 5 rest terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
5 Rest Terms
- HATEOAS
- Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State — a REST constraint where API responses include hyperlinks to related actions and resources, allowing clients to...
- Resource
- Any identifiable entity that a system manages — in REST, a resource is anything addressable by a URI (a user, an order, a document); in systems programming, it...
- REST API Security
- The protection of RESTful APIs against authentication flaws, authorization bypass, injection, excessive data exposure, abuse, and misuse of tokens or request...
- Swagger
- The original name (now OpenAPI) for a specification and toolset for describing RESTful APIs in a machine-readable format, enabling auto-generated...
- Web API
- An interface exposed over HTTP (typically REST, GraphQL, or gRPC-Web) that allows client applications to read and write server-side data and trigger...
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