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Sodiaan
Sodiaan

Reputation: 341

How to do checks in REST?

I have a collection of users. Each user have phone.

In application user can check if a user exists in application by sending a phone number.

How to do it in more restful way?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 43

Answers (1)

user6999902
user6999902

Reputation: 

GET /users?phoneNumber=1234

would return a collection of users that have the phone number `1234.

Edit:

Since you are not interested in the specific user but only in the fact that a user having the given phone number exists, the REST Resource would be this fact.

GET /user-phone-number-existence/1234

The name user-phone-number-existence is just a quick idea, you can change it, of course. The important point is that it is a noun, not a verb.

The response code would be 204 No Content if a user having the phone number exists. If no such user exists, a 404 Not Found would be the response code.

I see no necessity to include a body with the response, everything can be communicated using HTTP status codes.

Upvotes: 1

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