Is it considered bad practice to perform HTTP POST without entity body?

Question

I need to invoke a process which doesn\'t require any input from the user, just a trigger. I plan to use POST /uri without a body to trigger the process. I want to know if t

Answer 1

Support for the answers that POST is OK in this case is that in Python's case, the OpenAPI framework "FastAPI" generates a Swagger GUI (see image) that doesn't contain a Body section when a method (see example below) doesn't have a parameter to accept a body.

the method "post_disable_db" just accepts a path parameter "db_name" and doesn't have a 2nd parameter which would imply a mandatory body.

@router.post('/{db_name}/disable',
             status_code=HTTP_200_OK,
             response_model=ResponseSuccess,
             summary='',
             description=''
             )
async def post_disable_db(db_name: str):
    try:
        response: ResponseSuccess = Handlers.databases_handler.post_change_db_enabled_state(db_name, False)
    except HTTPException as e:
        raise (e)
    except Exception as e:
        logger.exception(f'Changing state of DB to enabled=False failed due to: {e.__repr__()}')
        raise HTTPException(HTTP_500_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, detail=e.__repr__())

    return response