REST

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Each book explains REST in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• HTTP

  Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which sends data in clear text; VCF interfaces and APIs instead use HTTPS.

• API

  Short for application programming interface: a contract that client code calls programmatically, for example a web API secured with tokens or the Files, Images or Responses APIs.

Related terms

• A SKU

  Bought through Azure, these Power BI Embedded tiers (A1 up to A8) let developers place Power BI content inside their own apps. They host Power BI workloads only, not the rest of Fabric; an A4 offers compute equal to a P1 or an F64.

• ALLEXCEPT

  Clears every context filter from a table except the ones placed on columns you list. In this DAX function, the first argument must be a base table and the rest must be columns belonging to it.

• Allowed resource types

  Deny-effect built-in Azure Policy that permits only the resource types it lists and blocks the rest.

• Analyze image API

  REST operation in Content Safety that rates a blob URL or base64-encoded picture against four harm categories, returning severity 0, 2, 4 or 6; it is called as POST {endpoint}/contentsafety/image:analyze.

• analyze-text endpoint

  Single Azure Language REST endpoint (/language/:analyze-text) in which the kind field of the request, for example SentimentAnalysis, EntityRecognition or LanguageDetection, chooses the feature. The older /text/analytics/v3.x paths are superseded by it.

• Apache Iceberg

  An open table format. Besides Delta, it is one of the formats Unity Catalog offers for managed tables, and other engines can work with those managed Iceberg tables over Iceberg's REST catalog interface.

• Availability zone

  One or more datacentres in an Azure region that are physically apart from the rest and have their own power, cooling and network. If one zone fails, the others keep running.

• Azure App Service

  Platform-as-a-service hosting in which Azure runs the servers behind your HTTP-based applications, such as websites, REST APIs and mobile back ends, on Linux or Windows. Load balancing, scaling, sign-in and deployment slots are built in.