Re:Rules for REST API URI Design
by 3pt14159 on Sunday June 18, 2017 @08:33AM
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This isn't true. Or at least not necessarily true. If you're referring to the JSON API spec you're conflating related and relationship links. The former is strictly for GETs (GET students/5/courses) and the later is for controlling the relationship itself (PATCH students/5/relationship/courses).
See here for more information:
http://jsonapi.org/format/upcoming/#crud-updating-to-many-re...