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mmerickel on Dec 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: REST API Alternatives

Yes, totally. It is completely lacking any mechanism that allows collection-level operations. If you want to create a bunch of resources you have to abandon the supported headers and return a list of ETags in the body, removing any niceties the client would've given you for standard "REST" support. Same for the Content-Location that you mentioned.

Roboprog on Dec 22, 2013 [–]

In practice, I don't think that stops people from making REST APIs that PUT/POST lists of sub-documents that each have an embedded ID.

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