RESTful Collection Services - Overview
This article is relevant to entity models that utilize the deprecated Visual Studio integration of Telerik Data Access. The current documentation of the Data Access framework is available here.
RESTful Collection Service is a service that represents a collection of resources exposed as XML or JSON. REpresentational State Transfer (REST) is a key design idiom that embraces a stateless client-server architecture in which the web services are viewed as resources and can be identified by their URLs. Applications that want to use these web services access a particular representation by transferring application content using a small globally defined set of methods that describe the action to be performed on the resource. One of the key characteristics of a RESTful Web service is the explicit use of HTTP methods. This basic REST design principle establishes a one-to-one mapping between CRUD operations and HTTP methods. According to this mapping, if you want:
- to create a resource on the server, use POST.
- to retrieve a resource, use GET.
- to change the state of a resource or to update it, use PUT.
- to remove or delete a resource, use DELETE.
For more information, read A Guide to Designing and Building RESTful Web Services with WCF.
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