我过去一直是REST的忠实粉丝，它在纸上比RPC有很多优势。你可以给客户端提供不同的内容类型、缓存、HTTP状态代码的重用，你可以通过API引导客户端，如果API不是大部分都是自解释的，你可以在API中嵌入文档。

But my experience has been that in practice this doesn't hold up and instead you do a lot of unnecessary work to get everything right. Also the HTTP status codes often don't map to your domain logic exactly and using them in your context often feels a bit forced. But the worst thing about REST in my opinion is that you spend a lot of time to design your resources and the interactions they allow. And whenever you do some major additions to your API you hope you find a good solution to add the new functionality and you didn't design yourself into a corner already.

This often feels like a waste of time to me because most of the time I already have a perfectly fine and obvious idea about how to model an API as a set of remote procedure calls. And if I have gone through all this effort to model my problem inside the constraints of REST the next problem is how to call it from the client? Our programs are based on calling procedures so building a good RPC client library is easy, building a good REST client library not so much and in most cases you will just map back from your REST API on the server to a set of procedures in your client library.

正因为如此，今天对我来说，RPC感觉更简单、更自然。不过，我真正怀念的是一个一致的框架，它可以很容易地编写自描述和可互操作的RPC服务。因此，我创建了自己的项目，尝试新的方法使RPC对我自己更容易，也许其他人也会发现它有用:https://github.com/aheck/reflectrpc

Great answers - just wanted to clarify on a some of the comments. JSON-RPC is quick and easy to consume, but as mentioned resources and parameters are tightly coupled and it tends to rely on verbs (api/deleteUser, api/addUser) using GET/ POST where-as REST provides loosely coupled resources (api/users) that in a HTTP REST API relies on several HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE). REST is slightly harder for inexperienced developers to implement, but the style has become fairly common place now and it provides much more flexibility in the long-run (giving your API a longer life).

除了没有紧密耦合的资源外，REST还允许您避免提交到单一的内容类型中——这意味着如果您的客户端需要接收XML、JSON甚至YAML格式的数据——如果在您的系统中，您可以使用内容类型/接受标头返回其中任何一种。

这让你的API足够灵活，以支持新的内容类型或客户端需求。

But what truly separates REST from JSON-RPC is that it follows a series of carefully thought out constraints- ensuring architectural flexibility. These constraints include ensuring that the client and server are able to evolve independently of each other (you can make changes without messing up your client's application), the calls are stateless (state is represented through hypermedia), a uniform interface is provided for interactions, the API is developed on a layered system, and the response is cacheable by the client. There's also an optional constraint for providing code on demand.

然而，尽管如此，大多数API都不是RESTful的(根据Fielding的说法)，因为它们不包含超媒体(在响应中嵌入超文本链接，帮助导航API)。大多数api都是类似REST的，因为它们遵循大多数REST的概念，但忽略了这个约束。然而，越来越多的api正在实现这一点，它正在成为一种主流实践。

这也为您提供了一些灵活性，因为超媒体驱动的api(如Stormpath)将客户端引导到URI(这意味着如果某些情况发生了变化，在某些情况下您可以修改URI而不会产生负面影响)，而与RPC一样，URI需要是静态的。使用RPC，您还需要广泛地记录这些不同的uri，并解释它们如何相互关联地工作。

一般来说，如果您想要构建一个可扩展的、灵活的、长期存在的API，我认为REST是最佳选择。基于这个原因，我认为这是99%的情况下应该走的路线。

祝你好运, 迈克

REST与HTTP紧密耦合，因此如果您只通过HTTP公开API，那么REST更适合于大多数(但不是所有)情况。然而，如果你需要通过其他传输方式(如消息传递或web套接字)公开你的API，那么REST就不适用了。

最好在REST和JSON-RPC之间选择JSON-RPC，为web应用程序开发一个更容易理解的API。JSON-RPC是首选，因为它对方法调用和通信的映射很容易理解。

选择最合适的方法取决于约束条件或主要目标。例如，只要性能是一个主要特征，就建议使用JSON-RPC(例如，高性能计算)。但是，如果主要目标是不可知，以便提供一个通用的接口供其他人推断，则建议使用REST。如果两个目标都需要实现，建议同时包含两个协议。

The fact which actually splits REST from JSON-RPC is that it trails a series of carefully thought out constraints- confirming architectural flexibility. The constraints take in ensuring that the client as well as server are able to grow independently of each other (changes can be made without messing up with the application of client), the calls are stateless (the state is regarded as hypermedia), a uniform interface is offered for interactions, the API is advanced on a layered system (Hall, 2010). JSON-RPC is rapid and easy to consume, however as mentioned resources as well as parameters are tightly coupled and it is likely to depend on verbs (api/addUser, api/deleteUser) using GET/ POST whereas REST delivers loosely coupled resources (api/users) in a HTTP. REST API depends up on several HTTP methods such as GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, PATCH. REST is slightly tougher for inexperienced developers to implement.

JSON (denoted as JavaScript Object Notation) being a lightweight data-interchange format, is easy for humans to read as well as write. It is hassle free for machines to parse and generate. JSON is a text format which is entirely language independent but practices conventions that are acquainted to programmers of the family of languages, consisting of C#, C, C++, Java, Perl, JavaScript, Python, and numerous others. Such properties make JSON a perfect data-interchange language and a better choice to opt for.

在我看来，关键在于行动vs资源导向。REST是面向资源的，非常适合CRUD操作，并且由于其已知的语义为第一个用户提供了一些可预测性，但是当从方法或过程实现时，将迫使您提供对以资源为中心的世界的人工转换。另一方面，RPC非常适合面向操作的api，在这种api中，您公开的是服务，而不是可用于RPC的资源集。

毫无疑问REST更受欢迎，如果你想将API公开给第三方，这无疑会增加一些好处。

如果不是(例如在SPA中创建AJAX前端)，我的选择是RPC。特别是JSON- rpc，结合JSON Schema作为描述语言，并根据用例通过HTTP或Websockets传输。

JSON-RPC是一个简单而优雅的规范，它定义了用于同步或异步RPC的请求和响应JSON有效负载。

JSON Schema是一份规范草案，定义了一种基于JSON的格式，旨在描述JSON数据。通过使用JSON Schema描述您的服务输入和输出消息，您可以在消息结构中拥有任意的复杂性，而不会影响可用性，并且可以自动化服务集成。

传输协议(HTTP vs websockets)的选择取决于不同的因素，最重要的是你是否需要HTTP特性(缓存、重新验证、安全性、幂等性、内容类型、多部分等等)，或者你的应用程序是否需要在高频率下交换消息。

到目前为止，这主要是我个人对这个问题的看法，但是现在有一些东西可以真正帮助那些阅读这些行的Java开发人员，我在过去的一年里一直在工作的框架，诞生于你现在想知道的同一个问题:

http://rpc.brutusin.org

你可以在这里看到一个现场演示，展示了用于功能测试的内置存储库浏览器(感谢JSON Schema)和一系列示例服务:

http://demo.rpc.brutusin.org

希望对伴侣有帮助!

Nacho

我使用vdata为RPC协议: http://vdata.dekuan.org/

1、PHP和JavaScript都没问题。 2、跨源资源共享(CORS)呼叫仍然正常。