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Asked: 2026-06-18T12:05:17+00:00

I’ve looked elsewhere on SO for an answer to this question, but can’t find

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I’ve looked elsewhere on SO for an answer to this question, but can’t find one.

I’m building an MVC Web API that will, in part, kick off processes on a remote machine. As of right now, a POST to “blah.com/Process” will save some initialization data to the database and instruct a windows service to begin operating on it. A GET request to “blah.com/Process/{Id}” will retrieve the current progress of the process.

These two controller actions use two different models. The POST accepts a model that contains parameter information, which the GET (since it’s used to report progress, and I couldn’t care less about the parameters) does not return. Is this a violation of RESTful design? Should I be using two different URLs, or would that be a violation of REST? As I understand it, the data being transferred should represent the current state of the process, which in my mind it does in both cases.

EDIT: Thanks for the responses. I feel more secure in my approach now. 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    According to Wikipedia:

    Conforming to the REST constraints is generally referred to as being “RESTful”. If a service violates any of the required constraints, it cannot strictly be considered RESTful.

    Without going into complex detail, these constraints are:

    • Client–server
    • Stateless
    • Cacheable
    • Layered system
    • Code on demand (optional)
    • Uniform interface

    Neither case in your description violates these principles. Do what makes the most sense to the consumers of the API, keeping the whole as simple as possible.

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