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## RestMiddlewareGroups namespace

Built-in middleware groups for the REST sequence

**Signature:**

```typescript
export declare namespace RestMiddlewareGroups 
```

## Variables

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Variable


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Description


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[API\_SPEC](./rest.restmiddlewaregroups.api_spec.md)


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Server OpenAPI specs


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[AUTHENTICATION](./rest.restmiddlewaregroups.authentication.md)


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Perform authentication


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[CORS](./rest.restmiddlewaregroups.cors.md)


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Enforce CORS


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[DEFAULT](./rest.restmiddlewaregroups.default.md)


</td><td markdown="1">


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[FIND\_ROUTE](./rest.restmiddlewaregroups.find_route.md)


</td><td markdown="1">

Find the route that can serve the request


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[INVOKE\_METHOD](./rest.restmiddlewaregroups.invoke_method.md)


</td><td markdown="1">

Invoke the target controller method or handler function


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[MIDDLEWARE](./rest.restmiddlewaregroups.middleware.md)


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Default middleware group


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[PARSE\_PARAMS](./rest.restmiddlewaregroups.parse_params.md)


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Parse the http request to extract parameter values for the operation


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[SEND\_RESPONSE](./rest.restmiddlewaregroups.send_response.md)


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Invoke downstream middleware to get the result or catch errors so that it can produce the http response


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