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  ChrisJG

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  Web api and RESTful

  Nov 26, 2019 07:29 PM|ChrisJG|LINK

  I just wanted some clarification on the definition of WebApi and RESTful (RESTapi)
  
  What is the relationship and differences between them? Is one, restful, a principle, while webapi is the code you write?
  
  Many thanks.
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  mgebhard

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  Re: Web api and RESTful

  Nov 26, 2019 09:31 PM|mgebhard|LINK

  Web API is a framework for building RESTful services.  Representational state transfer (REST) is an software architecture.  

  Web API

  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/web-api/?view=aspnetcore-3.0

  REST

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer

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  bruce (sqlwo...

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  Re: Web api and RESTful

  Nov 26, 2019 09:52 PM|bruce (sqlwork.com)|LINK

  a REST api is specification of how to a REST webservice should work.

  WebApi is a .net framework for building webservices. You can build a RESTful api with it. 

  note: a REST api should be idempotent for get, put, delete verbs. WebApi has no builtin support for this, you must code it. 

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotence#Computer_science_meaning

  bruce (sqlwork.com)