Regarding API reference docs terminology

[mvidberg]

I notice that when looking through the API reference docs at
http://dev.drop.io/rest-api-reference/actions/ there is a section
called "METHOD" and most have specifying it as "GET" or "POST", which
makes sense to me. Then there are others that are specified as "PUT"
and "DELETE". What exactly do those methods mean because in terms of
HTTP methods I only know of GET and POST.

[Eric Skiff]

GET and POST are the most common HTTP methods and are generally used by browsers, but there are a number of other HTTP methods. in REST apis like ours, PUT and DELETE are often used to allow the full set of CRUD operations (create, read, update, delete) to be run against a single resource (url).

For example, to use curl to delete an asset in a drop, you would call the URL with the DELETE HTTP method like so:

curl -X DELETE http://api.drop.io/drops/YOUR_DROP_NAME/assets/YOUR_ASSET_NAME --data "api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&version=2.0" -G

Here's a few handy links for more information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol#Request_methods

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer

-Eric

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[mvidberg]

Ok, thanks for the info and links. Haven't been exposed to using
these other methods with any other API's I've worked with. Learn
something new every day I guess.

On Apr 8, 2:43 pm, Eric Skiff <e...@dropio.com> wrote:
> GET and POST are the most common HTTP methods and are generally used by
> browsers, but there are a number of other HTTP methods. in REST apis like
> ours, PUT and DELETE are often used to allow the full set of CRUD operations
> (create, read, update, delete) to be run against a single resource (url).
>
> For example, to use curl to delete an asset in a drop, you would call the
> URL with the DELETE HTTP method like so:
>

> curl -X DELETEhttp://api.drop.io/drops/YOUR_DROP_NAME/assets/YOUR_ASSET_NAME

> --data "api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&version=2.0" -G
>
> Here's a few handy links for more information
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol#Request_methods
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer
>

> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol#Request_methods>

> -Eric
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:25 PM, mvidberg <markovidb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I notice that when looking through the API reference docs at

> >http://dev.drop.io/rest-api-reference/actions/there is a section

> > called "METHOD" and most have specifying it as "GET" or "POST", which
> > makes sense to me.  Then there are others that are specified as "PUT"
> > and "DELETE".  What exactly do those methods mean because in terms of
> > HTTP methods I only know of GET and POST.
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