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wedi
wedi

Reputation: 23

How to create relationships in a RESTful API

I have 2 tables, User table and User_token table, they are one to one/none relatonship, not sure how to create this RESTful API.

i prefer to setup

# to get user attributes 
GET /users/123

# to get user's token 
GET /users/123/token

or should i create

# to get user attributes and token by JOIN the table
GET /users/123

the argument we have here, if we are doing the first setup, which i like it, it takes thousands of API requests compare to second one

Upvotes: 1

Views: 189

Answers (2)

inf3rno
inf3rno

Reputation: 26129

REST has nothing to do with your database structure.

Your resources can contain properties or sub-resources. Every resource has at least one resource identifier (URL).

So in your case the GET /users/123 is a valid solution.

Upvotes: 0

Yogesh Prajapati
Yogesh Prajapati

Reputation: 4870

that is depend you requirement.

for example if you need User Attributes and Token every time than

# to get user attributes and token by JOIN the table
GET /users/123

is better.

other wise another approach is good to get required data when needed.

Upvotes: 1

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