Interacting with RESTful API's via Javascript?

Answer 1

The problem is that you will need to use AJAX to query the remote REST API, and AJAX is only allowed to query resources on the same domain as the page. So, a request to api.twitter.com will fail because it is on a different domain than your server.

To correct this you will need to code your server to make the request to twitter. You can however create your own AJAX stubs that will accept data directly from your page, and then build / send requests to twitter server-side using data supplied by your client.

Answer 2

Generally Justin's approach is the correct one, however if you must have your client script interact with the REST service then you can do it with JsonP. that's JSON data wrapped in a function call.

see this page how to do it http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-aj-jsonp1/