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user49126
user49126

Reputation: 1863

RESTful API design and load select options

Let's have a form, where I have a couple of selects. I need to fill them with options provided from server.

But a RESTful API should only have methods for

There's no place for retrieving some other data. I guess I should create these 4 method for each select options, but that seems to me like a overkill.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1217

Answers (1)

Seeta Somagani
Seeta Somagani

Reputation: 787

Your form data lists can be orthogonal to each other but your form must obviously put them together in a business context. The object that you would GET or PUT or POST or DELETE would be your business object that only has a property for each of the selects. You can GET the lists populating your selects separately.

You can have the 4 methods for each of those lists only if you wish to provide those services via REST as opposed to maintaining them directly (using SQL). Otherwise, only GET would suffice.

Upvotes: 4

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