Question

If I offer a POST in my REST API, say like

https://api.myservice.com/myresource

and I want to accept a complex JSON string/object from within the POST.

Should I

• omit the JSON and map the entire object to the URL (which would be quite uncool)

• add the JSON Data as key => value pairs to the JSON

• am I able to just access the raw body data or wouldn’t that be any more restful?

Answer 1

When you do POST to the URL https://api.myservice.com/myresource you would be creating a myresource with the details in the POST body. The URL generally should contain your resources.