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Consuming services is something every application needs to do. In this article, Nick demonstrates how to document a REST service using Swagger in order to make it easy to consume from a Universal ...

For my current project, I am developing both a REST API and a mobile client app. However, I have hit a snag in keeping everything RESTful. I have an entity exposed by the API which is a DateRange. The ...

REST is about managing information, not invoking arbitrary behavior, so you need to exercise care when considering a behavior-oriented API like Jazzy. The trick is to treat the RESTful API as an ...

Despite REST's position as the de facto standard in web services development, it's not without some shortcomings. Data exchange formats can be bloated, and it lacks standards for API documentation and ...