RESTful Design for Internet of Things Systems
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Network Working Group                                         A. Keranen
Internet-Draft                                                  Ericsson
Intended status: Informational                               M. Kovatsch
Expires: April 26, 2019                                       Siemens AG
                                                               K. Hartke
                                                                Ericsson
                                                        October 23, 2018

             RESTful Design for Internet of Things Systems
                      draft-irtf-t2trg-rest-iot-02

Abstract

   This document gives guidance for designing Internet of Things (IoT)
   systems that follow the principles of the Representational State
   Transfer (REST) architectural style.  This document is a product of
   the IRTF Thing-to-Thing Research Group (T2TRG).

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Basics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.1.  Architecture  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.2.  System design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     3.3.  Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     3.4.  Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     3.5.  HTTP/CoAP Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
       3.5.1.  GET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
       3.5.2.  POST  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
       3.5.3.  PUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
       3.5.4.  DELETE  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
       3.5.5.  FETCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
       3.5.6.  PATCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
     3.6.  HTTP/CoAP Status/Response Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   4.  REST Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
     4.1.  Client-Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
     4.2.  Stateless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
     4.3.  Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
     4.4.  Uniform Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
     4.5.  Layered System  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
     4.6.  Code-on-Demand  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
   5.  Hypermedia-driven Applications  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
     5.1.  Motivation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
     5.2.  Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
     5.3.  Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
     5.4.  Hypermedia-driven Design Guidance . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
   6.  Design Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
     6.1.  Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
     6.2.  Calling a Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
       6.2.1.  Instantly Returning Procedures  . . . . . . . . . . .  21
       6.2.2.  Long-running Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
       6.2.3.  Conversion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
       6.2.4.  Events as State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
     6.3.  Server Push . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23