对于不需要身份验证的Web服务，我是否需要REST？

Question

Im confused regarding the need of REST for a web service.Im a noob when it comes to web service,the scalability etc.

This is my requirement

-Need to fetch some data eg:names of students in a class and their photographs plus their address and stuff

-There is no authenciation/Tokens required since the data is publicly available

My question is

-Do i need to use REST for this? Will MYSQL+PHP Webservice that communicates using HTTP GET and POST do the job?

-If i go with this approach will this affect the performance of the app,when there is bulk data and will it scale?The maximum number of users that may be using the app is just 50 at a time.

-Does REST offer significant advantages,since i dont know JSON and stuff,will it payoff the learning curve?

Answer 1

You can implement any protocol you want to do that, but using REST ensure you are following a common procedure which will make your application more maintainable.

The amount of resources used depends how do you implement the queries and responses on the server-side.

You should learn that, it will improve your knowledge as you can learn together other patterns (gateway, repository, MVC) to make your server-side professional and maintainable.

My suggestion for your application is implementing the server-side using a framework such as Laravel (I recommend), CakePHP or similar. I say that because your app seems to be just interaction with pre-defined models.