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Content Negotiation

HTTP Content Negotiation

A mechanism where the client and server agree on the best representation of a resource using Accept headers.

Technisches Detail

Content Negotiation APIs use HTTP methods as verbs: GET (read), POST (create), PUT (replace), PATCH (partial update), DELETE (remove). Resources are identified by URIs and represented in JSON. RESTful design requires statelessness — each request contains all information needed for processing. HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State) is the often-ignored constraint where responses include links to related actions, enabling API self-discovery.

Beispiel

```javascript
// Content Negotiation example
const input = 'sample data';
const result = process(input);
console.log(result);
```

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