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RESTful Java Web Services, Second Edition

You're reading from   RESTful Java Web Services, Second Edition Design scalable and robust RESTful web services with JAX-RS and Jersey extension APIs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784399092
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jobinesh Purushothaman Jobinesh Purushothaman
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Preface 1. Introducing the REST Architectural Style FREE CHAPTER 2. Java APIs for JSON Processing 3. Introducing the JAX-RS API 4. Advanced Features in the JAX-RS API 5. Introducing the Jersey Framework Extensions 6. Securing RESTful Web Services 7. The Description and Discovery of RESTful Web Services 8. RESTful API Design Guidelines A. Useful Features and Techniques Index

Representing date and time in RESTful web resources


Here is a list of recommendations when you have the date (and time) fields in the RESTful web API resources:

  • ISO 8601 is the International Standard for the representation of dates and times. It is recommended to use the ISO-8601 format for representing the date and time in your RESTful web APIs. Here is an example for the ISO-8601 date and time: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD (for example, 2015-06-16T11:20:30.45+01:00)

  • The API that you build must be capable of accepting any time zone set by the client.

  • While storing the date and time fields present in the resource representation in the database, use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). UTC is guaranteed to be consistent.

  • While retuning the date and time fields in response to an API call, use the UTC time zone. The client can easily convert the date field present in the resource into the desired local time by using an appropriate UTC offset.

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