REST - complex applications

Question

I\'m struggling to apply RESTful principles to a new web application I\'m working on. In particular, it\'s the idea that to be RESTful, each HTTP request should carry enoug

Answer 1

No all of that does not have to be in every request.

Each resource (medication, patient history, etc) should have a canonical URI that uniquely identifies it. In some applications (eg, Rails-based ones) this will be something like "/patients/1234" or "/drugs/5678" but the URL format is unimportant.

A client that has previously obtained the URI for a resource (such as from a search, or from a link embedded in another resource) can retrieve it using this URI.