How to (and how not to) design REST APIs

Re:How to (and how not to) design REST APIs by LAC-Tech on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @08:51PM (#38388191)

English pluralisation rules are a non issue. 1.5 billion people world wide speak English, and I'll forgive some of them if they accidentally make a gooses URL instead of a geese one.

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Re:How to (and how not to) design REST APIs by jacknews on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @09:27PM (#38388470)

Why have plural at all. All rest urls except index, which is easily discernible because it has no id, make more sense in the singular:

  get /ticket/12
  patch /ticket/12
  put /ticket

The problem is not humans getting confused by 'gooses', but that sometimes your code has to do the mapping, and there are plenty of edge-cases. Just avoid the issue entirely by sticking with singular throughout.

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