{"id":81,"date":"2003-01-21T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-21T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/?p=232"},"modified":"2003-01-21T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-21T20:12:00","slug":"apis-and-application-protocols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2003\/01\/apis-and-application-protocols\/","title":{"rendered":"APIs and Application Protocols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many other discussions (though perhaps much faster than most 8-),\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketsoap.com\/weblog\/2003\/01\/20.html#a972\">Simon gets to\nthe heart of the matter<\/a>;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n[&#8230;] but at that level so is SOAP, its always HTTP POSTs[&#8230;]\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>While trying not to sound too much like a broken record, there is just one\n&#8220;level&#8221; here, the application layer; HTTP methods are application methods.\nPOST is as much an application method as\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/apis\/\">doSearch()<\/a>.  When you use HTTP\/REST,\nyou as a developer aren&#8217;t normally defining any methods, you&#8217;re just filling in\nthe arguments to the methods that HTTP provides.  That&#8217;s what &#8220;interface&#8221; in the\nuniform interface constraint is referring to; the API.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like many other discussions (though perhaps much faster than most 8-), Simon gets to the heart of the matter; [&#8230;] but at that level so is SOAP, its always HTTP POSTs[&#8230;] While trying not to sound too much like a broken record, there is just one &#8220;level&#8221; here, the application layer; HTTP methods are application [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}