A framework for self-descriptive RESTful services

  • Authors:
  • Luca Panziera;Flavio De Paoli

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy;University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

REST principles define services as resources that can be manipulated by a set of well-known methods. The same approach is suitable to define service descriptions as resources. In this paper, we try to unify the two concepts (services and their descriptions) by proposing a set of best practices to build self-descriptive RESTful services accessible by both humans and machines. Moreover, to make those practices usable with little manual effort, we provide a software framework that extracts compliant descriptions from documents published on the Web, and makes them available to clients as resources.