About REST Request Messages
REST clients send specially formatted requests to your REST application. The format of REST requests is determined by the webMethods Integration Server REST implementation and your specific application, but essentially it conveys the following information, or tokens, to the REST server:
The HTTP method to execute
The directive
The name of the resource
A simple REST request looks like this:
METHOD /directive/resource_type/resource_id HTTP/1.1
Where... | Is the... |
METHOD | HTTP request method. |
directive | The type of processing to perform. |
resource_type/resource_id | Resource to act upon. |
More complex request messages can contain more explicit information about the resource.