RESTful service contract

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like WSDL what is the contract for RESTful service it exposes to client. Are there any java frameworks to create the client automatically for consuming RESTful Services ?

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 29 '14 at 11:12

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In REST your media types and your link relations are your contracts. It is possible you use WADL as a runtime discovery mechanism, but it is far less flexible than using hypermedia based representations.

REST systems should never use something like WADL to generate client proxy classes.

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 14 '11 at 15:43

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Jersey is probably the most popular REST library for Java on the server. They also have client libraries that allow you to consume RESTful services with an example

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 14 '11 at 15:38

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The RESTful equilivant of a WSDL is a WADL

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 06 '13 at 19:48

REST services use what's called "uniform contract" or "uniform interface", which is based on http verbs. Thus, the contract of a REST service is a combination of the uniform interface and the URIs it support. To call a SOAP service we pick an operation and the address specified in the concrete section of that services's WSDL definition.
To call a REST service we pick an http verb and a URI.

RESTful service contract

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