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I am planning a RESTful API and I am wondering the best way to serve files / bundles of files across the api.
I may be missing something, but as I see it my options are:
Base64_encode the files and serve within the JSON responseI also need to bear in mind that some of these files need private and only served after successful authentication.
I have also looked at mod_xsendfile implementations briefly and wonder if this is a route I should be considering.
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Using Postman to upload Files If you are using Postman to test your REST Services, all you need to do is create a New | HTTP request. From the HTTP Request UI: Enter the URL of the REST Service (f.e. http://localhost:8080/rest-file-manager/resr/file/upload ) Select POST as method.
To attach a file, you must include it with the Body as form-data. Once you are in the Body → form-data fields, you must enter a KEY . This should be “file” or whichever value you specified in the @RequestPart(“[value]”) . After doing so, a dropdown will appear that gives you the option of Text or File.
When a client request is made via a RESTful API, it transfers a representation of the state of the resource to the requester or endpoint. This information, or representation, is delivered in one of several formats via HTTP: JSON (Javascript Object Notation), HTML, XLT, Python, PHP, or plain text.
The world most used APIs like Facebook, Flickr and Instagram provide static links to the images.
If you provide your binary files encoded in base64 they will be heavier and it will require more CPU resources both on the server side and on the client side to encode/decode them.
The only case where there are benefits to bundle the files is if you want to send many very small files like icons.
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