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Re:Ask HN: How would you an API to handle request variability by US st... on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @07:37AM (#22736590)

Thanks for the advice! This seems like a reasonable approach I might give a test drive.

Re:Ask HN: How would you an API to handle request variability by US st... on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @07:35AM (#22736581)

Ah interesting! Thanks for the reply, seems like you're having to deal with a lot more variability than me. Definitely sounds like an interesting problem and interesting solution to match.

Re:Ask HN: How would you an API to handle request variability by US st... on Monday March 30, 2020 @10:07PM (#22734306)

I would most likely want to manage them as a single code base as the business logic among the various states would be largely common (upwards of 80% or higher).

Ask HN: How would you an API to handle request variability by US state?

Posted by ortne on Monday March 30, 2020 @09:19PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have been struggling with determining a sane approach to building a REST API for servicing each state within the United States. Effectively, it would be creating the same semantic resource/operation for each state, but the input/attributes of that resource slightly vary by state. Some states are nearly identical and others are drastically different.One option I have tried in the past is...

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