I need to be able to grab a collection based on a collection of objects. For this, I'm considering a couple of approaches, but am not sure which one makes the most sense, so I'll post them both. If there is a better way that I may not have considered, then please feel free to post your suggestion(s) :)
For example, I'll use Products and Reviews (which are reviews of products) as resources.
Objective: We want to get the Reviews for all of the Products
Approach A:
POST api/Products { json: filters, limits, etc } // returns api/Products/<id>
GET api/Products/<id>/Reviews { json: filters, limits, etc } // returns json array
// ... of reviews present in products
// id in this case would refer to the collection, which would be cached
Approach B:
GET api/Reviews { json: filters } // returns json array of reviews, but needs to
// ... have either all of the product ids passed as an array (not practical with
// ... huge collections), or needs to have all of the api/Products filters passed,
// ... in which case making the code unDRY
Approach C:
GET api/Reviews { json: filters: { products: 'api/Products?filters' }...
// is this reasonable?
Thanks in advance for any help, and apologies if this question is noob, I'm still new to REST
Approach D:
access individual products
GET api/Product/<id>
access collection of products:
POST api/Products?filters=stuff..
GET api/Products/<id>
access collection of products' reviews
POST api/Products/<id>/Reviews?filters=stuff
GET api/Products/<id>/Reviews/<id>
... this would thus allow us to cache the result easily, does this seem reasonable to you?
