The interviewer says "explain what a RESTful API is." Going beyond the textbook definition, from the point of view of someone building an iOS client, how does the difference between an API designed RESTfully and one that isn't show up in the client code?
REST identifies resources by URI and uses the standard HTTP methods, status codes, and stateless communication as they are. That regularity gives the client declarative Endpoints and a generic client, idempotency-based retries and caching, and shared status code handling.
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Select all the correct statements about HTTP response status codes.
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For a take-home assignment you wrote this code that POSTs JSON with URLRequest. Select…
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