6-rest-programming

Question 1

What is Flask-RESTful?

Answer 1

Python extension for Flask that adds support for quickly building REST APIs.

Question 2

What is JAX-RS?

Answer 2

Java API for RESTful Web Services - uses annotations to define REST relevance of Java classes.

Question 3

What is Jersey?

Answer 3

Reference implementation for JAX-RS. Contains REST server and client.

Question 4

What are common JAX-RS annotations?

Answer 4

@Path (URL path), @GET/@POST/@PUT/@DELETE (HTTP method), @Produces (response type), @PathParam (URL parameter).

Question 5

What is Django REST Framework?

Answer 5

Python framework for building REST APIs with Django. Popular in industry.

Question 6

What steps needed before deploying Django REST?

Answer 6

Setup project, define serializers, define views, define URLs, configure pagination.

Question 7

What is Protocol Buffers (Protobuf)?

Answer 7

Google’s way of encoding structured data efficiently and extensibly. Used for internal RPC and file formats.

Question 8

What is Thrift?

Answer 8

Apache framework for scalable cross-language services. Combines software stack with code generation for C++

Question 9

What is Avro?

Answer 9

Apache data serialisation system.

Question 10

What is Gson?

Answer 10

Google Java library for serialising/deserialising Java objects to/from JSON.

Question 11

What’s the difference between binary and text serialisation?

Answer 11

Binary (Protobuf, Thrift): compact, fast, but not human-readable. Text (JSON, XML): human-readable, more verbose.