Implementing the REST service
In this chapter, you will begin implementing the actual user profile service. As a first step, we will design the RESTful API of the service and then continue by implementing the designed API endpoints.
Designing the service
Now it is time to get to the actual task that we want to implement in this chapter. In this chapter, you will develop a RESTful Web Service using the Slim framework and MongoDB to access and read user profiles. In short, one of the first steps that you should take when designing a REST Web Service is to think about the resources that you want to offer to your users.
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Keeping RESTful
Be sure to design around resources whose state you modify with HTTP verbs such as POST, PUT, and DELETE. I've often ...
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