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REST API Design Guide

This document outlines best practices for designing RESTful APIs, emphasizing the use of noun-based endpoint architecture and consistent HTTP method conventions. It highlights the importance of meaningful HTTP status codes to indicate operation results and recommends implementing pagination and filtering for large data collections. Following these guidelines can enhance API usability and maintainability.

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REST API Design Guide

This document outlines best practices for designing RESTful APIs, emphasizing the use of noun-based endpoint architecture and consistent HTTP method conventions. It highlights the importance of meaningful HTTP status codes to indicate operation results and recommends implementing pagination and filtering for large data collections. Following these guidelines can enhance API usability and maintainability.

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RESTful API Design Best Practices Overview

1. Noun-Based Endpoint Architecture


Endpoints should represent resource entities (nouns) rather than actions (verbs).
- Recommended: GET /users/123
- Discouraged: GET /getUserWithId?id=123

2. Consistent HTTP Method Conventions


- GET: Retrieve resource data without side effects.
- POST: Create a new resource in the target collection.
- PUT: Replace an existing resource entirely or create it if missing.
- PATCH: Apply partial modifications to a resource.
- DELETE: Remove a resource.

3. Meaningful HTTP Status Codes


Always return standard status codes to reflect execution results:
- 200 OK: Successful operation.
- 201 Created: Resource successfully created.
- 400 Bad Request: Invalid client payload or parameters.
- 401 Unauthorized: Authentication required or invalid.
- 404 Not Found: Resource path does not exist.
- 500 Internal Server Error: Unhandled server exception.

4. Pagination and Filtering


For large data collections, use query parameters for pagination:
GET /items?page=2&limit=20&sort=desc

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