I would like to know which is the best practice when you are having a resource which contains a list of subresources. For example, you have the resource Author which has info like name, id, birthda...

I'm having a real hard time conceptually understanding something proper concerning URLs for versioned resources. Let's say I have an application that tracks recipes in a way very similar to a vers...

I started learning Flask framework recently and made a short program to understand request/response cycle in flask. My problem is that last method called calc doesn't work. I send request as: ...

I have a url to fetch appointments for a user like this: /user/:userId/appointments How should the url look like if I want to get appointments for multiple users? should it be: /appointments?u...

I'm implementing a restful API interface, and was wondering about some limitations and best practices. I have a GET request which retrieves a series of entries from a database table. However my p...

I've seen URIs that support magic ids for the authenticated user like below: GET /user/me - list my profile GET /user/me/photos - list my photos where the ones below use the actual user id GET ...

I am using AngularJS $resource model to REST API. I have got something like this: angular.module('libraryapp') .factory('Book', function($resource){ return $resource('books/:id'); }); I am us...

Let's say I have an API where you can get users: GET /RESTAPI/user/ And you can delete users by: DELETE /RESTAPI/user/123 What is the RESTful convention on what the DELETE's response body should ...

I am wondering what status code would I response with in my else statement from the code below: if (album) { res.status(200).json({error: false, data: {channel_id: album.attributes.channel_id, i...

i am trying to learn restful services and as part of that i am designing a sample request and response page...see i am getting everything right except the following resource called: <i> pa...

I want to an image while I hit an API like localhost:8080:/getImage/app/path={imagePath} While I hit this API it will return me an Image. Is this possible? Actually, I have tried this but it is ...

I have a SQL database server in Microsoft Azure. I want to use Azure Rest-API to select some records from a table. When I refer to Azure SQL Database REST API I can't find any section for this purp...

I am trying to consume an XML via a REST web service using SSRS. I am intending to create the XML using LINQ and then dump it at the web service location. The web service is held in Azure under ...

I am designing a RESTful API and I came up with a problem related to sub-resources. I see other APIs using full URL to operate over sub-resources. Take the example where Company has Departments an...

What's the best/restful way to design an API endpoint for checking existence of resources? For example there is a user database. While new user tries to sign up I want to check if email has ...

I am very new to angularJS. I am searching for accessing services from RESTful API, but I didn't get any idea. How can I do that?

I have this routing: url(r'^article/(?P<article_id>\d+)/', views.ArticleList.as_view()) which leads to this function: class RSSList(APIView): def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs): a...

I have numerous anchor tags on my page that only trigger jQuery actions on the same page. The don't redirect the user to another location, which is the normal expected behavior of an anchor tag. ...

This code works https://graph.microsoft.com:443/v1.0/me/drive/root?$filter=Size eq 0&$expand=children($select=id,folder,name,parentReference,cwebUrl)&$select=Id,folder,name,parentReference...

I have a question regarding RESTful API design. Following the guidelines of REST, all endpoints should be nouns and in plural, and should never be verbs. However, it is customary to have authentica...

We are building a restful service for serving employee data. We have an api which will return the list of employees who belong to a specific department of a client. This api takes 2 parameters -...

What is best practice for search in API? GET + query parameters, example: GET /search?q=phone GET + parameters in body, example: GET /search {"query": "phone"} POST + parameters in body, example:...

I have been discussing the best way of doing this with one of my colleagues Here's an example scenario: I'm trying to GET all orders for a Customer with ID of 1234. Consider the following endpoi...

I have a resource that essentially requires another resource as input data for creation. For example: POST /v1/NewResource body: {InputResource} The interesting thing, however, is that creation ...

I am trying to get my head around how to handle relationships in REST. I have read this question. If I have Drivers and Cars in my api and a Driver can only exist if connected to a Car I would ma...