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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