IRC log for #rest, 2014-06-06

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22:04	chovy	how should i formulate my api, i want to filter results based on an attribute. Is this reasonable?
22:04	chovy	/api/jobs/?user=xxxxxx
22:04	chovy	/api/jobs/?user=xxxxxx&order_by=created&dir=desc
22:04	chovy	something like that
22:14	chovy	i'm thinking maybe /api/jobs?filter=user:xxxx&order_by=created&dir=desc
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23:55	tmoore	chovy: it's reasonable, but you should consider whether you really need all of that complexity in the API
23:55	tmoore	once you expose it, you can't take it back
23:55	tmoore	something that might be simpler and more flexible is /api/users/xxxx/jobs
23:56	tmoore	and then do different clients really need them in different orders?
23:57	tmoore	if there are only one or two useful orders, you could expose them as different resources
23:57	tmoore	like /api/users/xxx/jobs/recently-created
23:58	tmoore	having lots of independent parameters tends to increase the complexity of both the client and the server
23:58	tmoore	it makes caching more difficult
23:58	tmoore	and can cause other performance issues
23:58	tmoore	so I would avoid it unless and until you really know you need it :-)

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