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Asked: 2026-05-28T06:36:31+00:00

I’m working on creating a REST API. Lets say the resource I’m serving is

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I’m working on creating a REST API. Lets say the resource I’m serving is called object and it contains a number of properties.

Apart from requesting the entire set of objects like this

GET api.example.com/objects

I want to allow requesting a single object by providing either the objectid or objectname,
like this


GET api.example.com/objects?objectid=
GET api.example.com/objects?objectname=

What I’m confused about is, how should I handle a request like this?

GET api.example.com/objects?objectid=x&objectname=y

In this case, should I return a 400 Bad Request, or should one of the parameters take precedence over the other? How does REST define this behavior?

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  1. Editorial Team

    REST generally assumes there is a unique URL for a resource, so it would be:

    GET api.example.com/objects/objectId

    Parameters are commonly used for searching, so you would have something like:

    GET api.example.com/objects?objectName=x
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