Including Id in URI for PUT requests

Question

I was reading some documents about the appropriate use of URI\'s using rest services and I came across an example for basic GET .. DELETE requests.

The example uri\'

Answer 1

Another benefit for including id in URL for put request is CREATE/UPDATE function can share some logic.

Let's say you have this user table with 3 colums.

id(primary key, auto increment) | name | age

Creating a user will generate a ID.

POST /users
{
  name: "foo"
  age: 25
}
-> generate id 123

Because id is in URL, you can use the same request body structure for updating a user.

PUT /users/123
{
  name: "bar"
  age: 25
}

This might be not so related to REST principal, but it could simplify the code for request handling in practice depending on your languages/frameworks.