Non-CRUD operations in a RESTful service

Question

What is the \"RESTful\" way of adding non-CRUD operations to a RESTful service? Say I have a service that allows CRUD access to records like this:

GET /api/         


        

Answer 1

The RESTful way as I understand it is that you don't need new HTTP verbs, there's a noun somewhere that will mean what you need to do.

Purchase a car? Well isn't that

POST /api/order