Understanding REST Web Services › Supported REST HTTP Methods

Supported REST HTTP Methods

As an integration developer, you use REST HTTP methods with the REST web service URLs to manage information in your environment. REST HTTP methods help you achieve the following objectives:

• Access and modify associated resources
• Send an HTTP request to the server for the resource that you want to manipulate
• Control the attributes that you want to retrieve using HTTP headers

CA SOI REST web services support the following REST HTTP methods:

POST (Create)

Creates a resource. The web service can respond with data or status indicating a success or failure.

GET (Read)

Performs a query on a resource and retrieves data. The data that is returned from the web service is a representation of the requested resource.

PUT (Update)

Updates an existing resource.

DELETE (Delete)

Removes an existing resource.