API pagination best practices
I’d love some some help handling a strange edge case with a paginated API I’m building. Like many APIs, this one paginates large … Read more
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When do I use path params vs. query params in a RESTful API?
I want to make my RESTful API very predictable. What is the best practice for deciding when to make a segmentation of data … Read more
How can I handle many-to-many relationships in a RESTful API?
Imagine you have two entities, Player and Team, where players can be on multiple teams. In my data model, I have a table … Read more
Pagination in a REST web application
This is a more generic reformulation of this question (with the elimination of the Rails specific parts) I am not sure how to … Read more
400 BAD request HTTP error code meaning?
I have a JSON request which I’m posting to a HTTP URL. Should this be treated as 400 where requestedResource field exists but … Read more
What are best practices for REST nested resources?
As far as I can tell each individual resource should have only one canonical path. So in the following example what would good … Read more
How to use cURL to send Cookies?
I read that sending cookies with cURL works, but not for me. I have a REST endpoint like this: class LoginResource(restful.Resource): def get(self): … Read more
REST API Best practice: How to accept list of parameter values as input [closed]
Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be … Read more
400 vs 422 response to POST of data
I’m trying to figure out what the correct status code to return on different scenarios with a “REST-like” API that I’m working on. … Read more
RESTful URL design for search
I’m looking for a reasonable way to represent searches as a RESTful URLs. The setup: I have two models, Cars and Garages, where … Read more