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HTTP methods

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HTTP methods

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- [Instructor] In this chapter, we will finally change the data in our data store, we will be writing new items to it. Remember, as of now, we are using the in-memory database, so when you restart the application, the data's gone. Keep that in mind and don't be confused if data you have just written seems to have vanished just a few minutes later if you restarted the application in between. That being out of the way, let's start. And since we are now writing information to the data store, we need to expand our arsenal of HTTP methods we are using. We've briefly covered it before, but now is a good time to reiterate, because we will be using that in our implementation in this chapter. So far, the HTTP method we've been working with was GET, GET for reading data. Remember, in REST we have a representation of data, and the URI serves as that representation, whereas the HTTP method denotes what we would like to do with that data or that resource. That means we'd like to read it. And if we…

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