REST API Project Overview

Understand the project overview of REST API in this lesson.

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Project overview

We’ll create a simple inventory API. The API is an application to manage item data. This application has basic CRUD features with authentication. The application’s features are as follows:

  • Get all item data.
  • Get an item’s data by ID.
  • Create a new item.
  • Update an item’s data.
  • Delete an item by ID.

Given the feature specifications above, the HTTP methods and URLs are specified in the table below. The URL for the API must contain the plural word of the resource (for example, books, items, products, etc.) and the API version.

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