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Overview
Introduction
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| The Fedora 4 HTTP API is generally a RESTful API. HTTP methods like GET, PUT, POST and DELETE are implemented on most resource paths. The API also relies heavily on content negotiation to deliver context-appropriate responses, and a HATEOAS-driven text/html response (providing a decent GUI experience on top of the repository). |
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The Fedora 4 RDF-based responses may be serialized as:
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Repository objects can be loosely divided into two classes of resources:
- Object and containers Containers ("fedora:objectContainer"), containing RDF properties and 0 or more child nodesresources
- Binaries, containing any binary payload (roughly corresponding to Fedora 3 datastreams)
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