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Mastering Julia

You're reading from   Mastering Julia Enhance your analytical and programming skills for data modeling and processing with Julia

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805129790
Length 506 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Malcolm Sherrington Malcolm Sherrington
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: The Julia Environment 2. Chapter 2: Developing in Julia FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: The Julia Type System 4. Chapter 4: The Three Ms 5. Chapter 5: Interoperability 6. Chapter 6: Working with Data 7. Chapter 7: Scientific Programming 8. Chapter 8: Visualization 9. Chapter 9: Database Access 10. Chapter 10: Networks and Multitasking 11. Chapter 11: Julia’s Back Pages 12. Index 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Interfacing with REST

REST refers to a software architecture style that’s designed to create scalable web services. It has gained widespread acceptance across the web as a simpler alternative to SOAP and WSDL-based web services.

RESTful systems typically communicate over hypertext transfer protocol with the same HTTP verbs (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, and so on) used by web browsers to retrieve web pages and send data to remote servers.

With the prevalence of web servers, many systems now feature REST APIs and can return plain text or structured information. A typical example of plain text might be a time-of-day service, but structured information is more common for complex requests as it contains meta-information to identify the various fields.

Historically, this was returned as XML, but recently, JSON has become more popular since this is more compact and ideal for the web, where bandwidth may be limited. As with XML, which we looked at earlier, the JSON representation...

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