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Many to many REST design for users and teams
I am designing REST API for users and teams of users. One user can belong to multiple teams . One of the requirements is to be able to sort the users belonging to team in alphabetical order. Teams can ...
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Endpoint design for single and bulk requests
I'm working on a project in Python and want to get it hosted for others to use, the internal recommendation has been to host it on AzureML (it is a non-machine learning model, but follows the same ...
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REST - Adding a new field
I have an object with fields like ID, CODE, NAME, etc., and it has its own database table with each field. And I am working on implementing the REST API for this object. I want to expose all these ...
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Handling simultaneous duplicate expensive read-only HTTP requests
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We have a read-only REST endpoint that performs a somewhat “expensive“ but transient request. Without client needing to poll, we need a mechanism for the server to avoid unnecessary ...
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Rest API: paths versus queryparams for user accounts
I'm looking for some guidance around REST design for user account endpoints. I generally understand REST and some of the principles involved, with paths being used to fetch items from a resource:
/...
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Is it okay for a POST response to return resources other than those in the request?
Working on the API, I understood that the behavior for one of the endpoints might be a bit counter-intuitive, but I am not sure whether this violates any RESTful rules. Based on what I have read, it ...
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REST API designing resources for complex entities
I have an ASP.Net Core Web API where I am having difficulties designing the REST resources based on the EF Entities I have.
There are three entities that describe a Reservation. First, there is the ...
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REST API design: how to represent users joining and leaving groups?
I'm designing a REST API in which users create groups that other users join and leave.
A user creates a group by making a request like this:
POST /groups
Request body:
{
"name": "...
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How to deal with upsert PUT requests in a Spring Boot web application without crossing service and controller layers?
I've got a pretty simple web service that I need to add a PUT endpoint for that can handle upserts. This application is primarily a middleware layer to handle logging, caching and instrumentation in ...
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Is it okay to return an object in a list endpoint according to REST API specification?
I need to add extra data to a list endpoint. Basically it is the list I want to return and an extra data. Like below
{
"results": [...],
"extra_data": {
"field": &...
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Best way to align multiple RESTful API's through an API gateway
We currently have a monolith public api which serves most of our api endpoints. This has introduced a bottleneck as the owning team needs to make changes to publicise anything new and other teams don'...
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Ideal REST API for long stateless computation?
We have to compute a schedule for a set of students and teachers in a school. The program takes a large amount of data. The time it takes to compute a schedule for a given input cannot be determined. ...
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parameter longer than the length limit of GET into a RESTful interface
In a Restful API, it is better to use GET to list a collection. However, in our scenario, we allow people query with a list of parameters (say CodeList) and then return details.
As we allow upto 500 ...
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How to properly implement Rest Controllers to handle overlapping entities?
I have:
A User entity.
A Poll entity.
Relationship: User creates polls.
Use-case:
When an arbitrarily user is clicked his/her profile is loaded and shown.
The profile includes a list of polls ...
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REST API noun vs verb and client vs server responsibility
I'm trying to delineate the responsibilities between client & server. I have the server parse a file, and then send back the uncategorized accounting transactions. The URL looks something like:
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