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The web service is based on Representational State Transfer, or REST. This simply means that each resource can be referenced by its own URL, and the actions performed on that resource correspond to HTTP methods. For instance, to fetch data you would issue a
Generally speaking, HTTP status codes are used appropriately for each response. For instance, The response format given by the web service is JSON, which is a lightweight data-interchange format. It's a simpler format than XML that also has the advantage of being used directly by the browsers' JavaScript implementations. |
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