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high and very low scores are clinically relevant, the trend in scores over time often has more utility than any single score.A few weeks ago I’ve seen an interesting flock of tweets initiated by this question: Is my hatred of having http endpoints with the same path but different behaviors based on the verb totally irrational? business for sale peeblesBecause I HATE it— Camille Fournier (@skamille) April 16, 2015handyman services in delaware county This question and the tweets that followed put my brain on quite an animated discussion…handyman services canyon country After this internal discussion, I realized that this question (and all the tweet debate that follows it) could help me highlight a dark corner of my librainry: why should I considered REST’s request style (resource oriented) better than RPC’s (operation oriented)? handyman website templates free download

Is RPC’s request style so evil? Is REST’s the panacea? Before comparing the two request styles let’s see what they look like. Both RPC and REST use HTTP protocol which is a request/response protocol. A basic HTTP request consists of: The table above shows only the HTTP verbs used commonly by RPC and REST APIs.business for sale malton The RPC acronym has many meanings and Remote Procedure Call has many forms.handyman services in honolulu In this post, when I talk about RPC I talk about WYGOPIAO: What You GET Or POST Is An Operation. With this type of RPC, you expose operations to manipulate data through HTTP as a transport protocol. As far as I know, there are no particular rules for this style but generally: How do people choose between GET and POST? I will not explain in detail what REST is, you can read Roy Fielding’s dissertation and The REST cookbook for more details.

To make it short and focus on the matter of this post, with a REST API you expose data as resources that you manipulate through HTTP protocol using the right HTTP verb : Here are some of my CarBoN API requests presented in RPC and REST ways: I’ve selected some items to compare RPC’s and REST’s requests styles: Even if this item is irrelevant, as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, both styles can produce beautiful API as they can produce ugly ones. So that’s a draw for this one. Is it easier to design RPC ou REST endpoints? Designing a RPC API may seem easier: The design of an RPC API needs the designers to be strict to achieve a consistant API as you do not really have constraints. Designing a REST API may seem easier when you deal mainly with data. But even if in some certain case , designing a REST API seems a little harder than an RPC one, it gives you a frame that let you achieve more easily a consistent API. And in both case you’ll have to deal with naming consistency.

Both style have pros and cons depending on the context but I don’t find that one style is more easier to design than the other. As I don’t really see a winner, that’s another draw. You can perfectly describe both styles with API definition languages like Swagger, RAML or blueprint. So that’s a draw, again. With RPC the semantic relies (mostly) on the endpoint and there are no global shared understanding of its meaning. For example, to delete an item you could have: To resign from the service you could have: With RPC you rely on your human interpretation of the endpoint’s meaning to understand what it does but you can therefore have a fine human readable description of what is happening when you call this endpoint. With REST the semantic relies (mostly) on the HTTP verb. The verb’s semantic is globally shared. The only way to delete an item is: If a user want to stop using your service, you’ll do this (not so obvious) call: REST is more predictable than RPC as it relies on the shared semantic of HTTP verbs.

You don’t know what happen exactly but you have a general idea of what you do. In both style you end making HTTP request, so there is no problem do design an hypermedia API with any of these styles. I’ve often seen (http) caching used as a killer reason to choose REST over RPC. But after reading HTTP RFCs, I do not agree with this argument (maybe I missed something). Of course if your RPC API only use POST for all requests, caching may be a little tricky to handle (but not impossible). If you use GET and POST wisely, your RPC API will be able to obtain the same level of cacheability as a REST API. From a developer point of view both styles are using HTTP protocol so there’s basically no difference between RPC and REST request. No difference on the documentation (machine of human readable) level too. REST wins thanks to the predictability and semantic item. So, is the resource approach better than the operation one? RPC and REST are only different approaches with pros and cons and both are valueable depending on the context.