REST API for SharePoint

In SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has introduced REST API as an alternative to web services for accessing data and performing CRUD operation in SharePoint. And in 2013 version of SharePoint, REST API has evolved as a the alternative to customization using client side scripts and cross-site scripting. And REST is very useful in developing SharePoint hosted apps as in this kind of app, we can use only client side scripting( ECMA, JavaScript) and not managed code written in C#.

REST API is basically uses http methods to perform CRUD operations and major task involved is creating url with headers and passing data wherever required in the body of http request. And in response we will get the result in the form of JSON object.

So in this blog series I'm going to cover CRUD operation involving

1. Web
2. List and Libraries
3. List Items
4. Fields
5. Files and Folders
6. Users and Groups

In the next blog post we will see how to perform CRUD operation involving web object. So, then stay tuned.