REST services and multiple representations of same object with different fields

Question

Let\'s say you have an Person object, with several fields like first_name, last_name, age which are relatively small, and

Answer 1

OData protocol provide a very comprehensive RESTful API. The common way to do CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) is done by POST, GET, PUT, and DELETE respectively.

Request for partial resource is done by adding select query:

api/Person?$select=first_name,last_name,age