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Multiple URLs, No Nested Data because of... Simplicity, Interoperability

If you're designing a RESTful API, and want to use form-encoded name-value pairs as the incoming data format, what do you do about nested data?


See http://bit.ly/3eD753 for background. This works for many (most?) cases, but eventually some apps need nested data: a transaction containing multiple records, a list of new users, related telemetry ... (more) Programming » Web

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  • mikeschi..
     
    mikeschinkel member since Jul 09, 2009
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    Best Option Pick: Multiple URLs, No Nested Data
    Reasons Suggested: 9  (avg points: 2.7/5.0)
    score: 34.4
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    ivey member since Jan 10, 2009
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    Options Suggested: Nested NVP, JSON For Nested, NVP For Rest, Multiple URLs, No Nested Data Test Swarm
    Criteria Suggested: Simplicty, Ease Of Looking At, Simplicity, Not Being Ugly
    Reasons Suggested: 1  (avg points: 1.0/5.0)
    score: 19.9
  • richesh
     
    richesh member since Sep 21, 2008
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    Best Option Pick: JSON For Nested, NVP For Rest
    Ratings: 6
    score: 7.0
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    good002 member since Dec 31, 2009
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    score: 3.0

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