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Re:Use links not keys to represent relationships in APIs by sbr464 on Sunday May 12, 2019 @02:27AM (#19890500)
I agree, and don't mind, We've just decided to add in both fields thing_id & thing, for parsing convenience.
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Re:Use links not keys to represent relationships in APIs by tuukkah on Sunday May 12, 2019 @02:57AM (#19890574)
I guess most schema designs wouldn't duplicate each field just for that convenience, as it doubles the number of fields in documentation, autocompletes etc. as well.
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