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HTTP/REST

What is HTTP/REST?

REST, or Representational State Transfer, is an architectural style for providing standards between computer systems on the web, making it easier for systems to communicate with each other. REST-compliant systems, often called RESTful systems, are characterized by how stateless they are and how they separate the concerns of the client and the server.

HTTP is a protocol which allows the fetching of resources such as HTML documents. HTTP is the foundation of any data exchange on the Web and it is a client-server protocol, which means requests are initiated by the recipient, usually the Web browser.

What is HTTP/REST used for?

The Connectware HTTP/REST implementation is suitable for polling data from as well as writing data to servers. Connections to servers are highly configurable through a lot of different properties such as hostname, scheme, port, additional headers, authentication information and many more. All data will be represented in JSON format internally.

HTTP/REST implementation with Cybus

Due to representing the data in JSON format, the data can be processed in a comfortable way and simply transferred to other systems using the embedded rule engine. If the server response data isn’t in a JSON parsable format, the response content will be made available as a string. This string representative content can also be processed in a comfortable way using the embedded rule engine. Thanks to this, it is possible to integrate not only RESTful systems but any HTTP based system, for example websites.