REST URI convention - Singular or plural name of resource while creating it

Question

I\'m new to REST and I\'ve observed that in some RESTful services they use different resource URI for update/get/delete and Create. Such as

• Create - using

Answer 1

I prefer using singular form for both simplicity and consistency.

For example, considering the following url:

/customer/1

I will treat customer as customer collection, but for simplicity, the collection part is removed.

Another example:

/equipment/1

In this case, equipments is not the correct plural form. So treating it as a equipment collection and removing collection for simplicity makes it consistent with the customer case.