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Discussion on: Need help in understanding 'Why use REST'

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Swarup Kumar Mahapatra

The intriguing part of the video was, REST was never about about cute urls like '/user/{userid}/order/{orderid}' , neither it is about GET,PUT,POST.

Rather its about resource identification and resource discoverability.

The idea of the URIs and the verbs is one of the recommendations using which the above statement can be achieved.

Prior to that video, I always though, REST is all about representation of domain data and the restricted list of operations (GET, PUT, POST , DELETE)