Lectures Log - A.Y. 2024/2025

Total lectures: 2, total lecture hours: 4 (16%) - First lecture: 2025-02-28, Last lecture: 2025-03-07

Lecture 1: Introduction to (RESTful) web services

2025-02-28, 11:30 (2 hours)
Slides WS-Rest

  • (1-1)
    Course presentation
  • (1-2)
    Why (web) services are an effective way to develop software
  • (1-3)
    The distributed (web) services story: from RPC to RESTful
  • (1-4)
    Course topics: RESTful web services
  • (1-5)
    Example RESTful services as an extension to standard web applications
  • (1-6)
    Example RESTful services as a base for client-side applications like SPA (Angular, React, etc.)
  • (1-7)
    Example RESTful services as a base for mobile apps
  • (1-8)
    Course topics: RESTful web services design
  • (1-9)
    Course topics: RESTful web services implementation (Java, PHP)
  • (1-10)
    Course topics: RESTful clients implementation (Java, PHP, Javascript)
  • (1-11)
    Web services and Web 2.0
  • (1-12)
    What web services really are?
  • (1-13)
    What is the role of web services in web 2.0?
  • (1-14)
    Example Analysis of some services published by the Public Administration on the web
  • (1-15)
    Example An example of real web services: Amazon
  • (1-16)
    Example Making the Public Administration services real web services
  • (1-17)
    RESTful web services: when to use them, and what alternatives exist

Lecture 2: RESTful services semantics 1

2025-03-07, 11:30 (2 hours)
Slides Restful

  • (2-1)
    Basic features of a RESTful service: protocols, formats, methods
  • (2-2)
    Semantics of a RESTful web service: what kind of application it is best suited for?
  • (2-3)
    RESTful services URL structure
  • (2-4)
    Mapping resources to URLs: the basic collection-item structure
  • (2-5)
    Example Mapping relational structures to RESTful URLs
  • (2-6)
    CRUD RESTful operations: the GET method
    link https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Methods/GET
  • (2-7)
    Example GET on collections: SELECT
  • (2-8)
    Example GET on collections with a query string: SELECT * WHERE
  • (2-9)
    Encoding of data returned by a GET and the Accept/Content-Type headers
  • (2-10)
    The return value of GET on collections: records or keys list?
  • (2-11)
    Example GET on collections: use of the query string to create a LIMIT clause
  • (2-12)