rest - RESTful API design and load select options

Question

Let's have a form, where I have a couple of selects. I need to fill them with options provided from server.

But a RESTful API should only have methods for

• Get
• Post
• Put
• Delete

There's no place for retrieving some other data. I guess I should create these 4 method for each select options, but that seems to me like a overkill.

Answer 1

您的表单数据列表可以相互正交，但您的表单显然必须将它们放在业务上下文中。您将 GET 或 PUT 或 POST 或 DELETE 的对象将是您的业务对象，它仅具有每个选择的属性。您可以单独获取填充您的选择的列表。

只有当您希望通过 REST 提供这些服务而不是直接维护它们（使用 SQL）时，您才能为每个列表使用 4 种方法。否则，只有 GET 就足够了。