RESTful Many-to-Many possible?

Question

How to I represent a complex resource for a REST post?

Hello, Currently I have an application which when the user hits \"save\" it iterates over all of the form el

Answer 1

I'm dealing with the exact same thing. I opted to not use id's anywhere, but use urls everywhere an id would normally be expected.

So in your case, the kitchenfeatures could simply be an array with urls to:

/feature/1
/feature/23

And the themes to

/propertyTheme/12
/propertyTheme/32
etc..

In the case of many-to-many relationships, we update all the relations as a whole. Usually we simply dump the existing data, and insert the new relationships.

For one to many relationships we sometimes extend the urls a bit where this makes sense. If you were to have comments functionality on a 'property', this could look like

/property/1/comment/5

But this really depends on the situation for us, for other cases we put it in the top-level namespace.

Is this helpful to you?