Questions tagged [rest]
Representational state transfer, or REST, is an architectural style for networking software to transfer information through the web.
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Where should I create my aggregate root? in api or frontend?
I am writing a simple application to apply what I have learned so far in DDD.
I have the following mysql tables in my api server
Sales
Column
id
pk, int
title
varchar
description
varchar
Images
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REST Route best practices for creating resources
I have some REST API endpoints set up to create a blog post. Each blog Post is owned by a user. I have the following routes:
/users [GET, POST]: Get a list of all users, POST to this endpoint to ...
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Is it OK to return different DTOs for the same endpoint when the user is logged in vs when it is anonymous?
Say that I have a REST endpoint for a chess server. If I'm not logged in and do a GET on /games I could get all running games like:
{
running_games: [
.....
]
}
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Rest API design - endpoints for multiple types
REST APIS are a Uniform interface.
Is it better to add functionality to the search parameters of a GET request with a query parameter, than to add nested resource identifiers to a collection /exists ...
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Restful design of read only list, with the exception of one published and one draft item
I have the following domain specs:
A historic read only list of items that were published and a currently published item (if any) and an optional draft item (if any).
I thought of the following design:...
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Additional questions for an old topic: "How to specify many ids and their variable name in a REST API request?" [duplicate]
Sorry, I would have left a comment on the other question, but I don't have enough reputation.
I have the same problem as in this question:
How to specify many ids and their variable name in a REST API ...
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Best practise for designing REST API endpoint that accepts a nested resource POST
What's the recommended design for an endpoint that accepts a nested resource as the following:
POST /account
{
"name": "Project John Doe",
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REST API design for resource that is "uploaded" via Presigned URL
I have an API with some specific resource say "cars" which have the following actions:
Get all Cars
Get one car
Add one car
for Get all cars and Get one Car, I have a REST api resouce with ...
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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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What is the best way to design endpoints for a restful application?
I am a backend developer and I am writing a restful application. I have a question about how best to design the endpoints.
I have a database table that stores values (I just provided an example)
|id (...
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What to name a POST endpoint that behaves like GET?
My app has an API endpoint GET /sessions/{id} which gets info about a session. This endpoint returns a lot of data, so we allow passing JSON in the request body to filter what fields etc. are ...
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How would I use TDD / BDD when my webapp interacts with an external REST API?
I'm following roughly the TDD style as explained in the "Obey the Testing Goat" book: You have a functional test for your (Django, in my case) web app that tests the observable behaviour via ...
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Composite ID in hierarchical REST API
Suppose the following:
Building has 0...n Rooms, Room has 0...n Seats.
I am implementing a REST API which accepts data from different companies, with the caveat that the companies must be able ...
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REST API vs upserts and "updeletes"
I am building an API that (I am deliberately simplifying the schema below to only focus on what is questionable):
I have a table that roughly looks like this:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS some_table
(
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Handling a numerical value that may be specific or a range in a REST API
Let's say I have a REST API that needs to return the width of an object, but that width may either be a specific value or a range of values. What would be the best practice for designing the API to ...
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