Comments on: This makes it all worth it http://www.udidahan.com/2006/08/04/this-makes-it-all-worth-it/ Enterprise Development Expert & SOA Specialist Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:16:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Eran Sandler http://www.udidahan.com/2006/08/04/this-makes-it-all-worth-it/comment-page-1/#comment-351 Eran Sandler Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:52:20 +0000 http://wp_630.weblogs.us/archives/307#comment-351 Actually, POST REST calls that their body contains an XML document with a few elements can be considered a way to update various elements at the same time. For example: Posting to the URI "http://www.somewherenice.com/people/" an XML that is actually a collection of people will add/update all of them. It might not be considered clean REST, though a get on the "people" can return an XML with all the people, while /people/[person id] where [person id] is an id of the person will return an XML of only that exact person. Taking the example above on GET and paraphrasing it on POST can work just as well, so that a POST to /people/[person id] will update (or add) a ceratin person while a POST to /people/ will update/add multiple ones. Actually, POST REST calls that their body contains an XML document with a few elements can be considered a way to update various elements at the same time.

For example:
Posting to the URI “http://www.somewherenice.com/people/” an XML that is actually a collection of people will add/update all of them.

It might not be considered clean REST, though a get on the “people” can return an XML with all the people, while /people/[person id] where [person id] is an id of the person will return an XML of only that exact person.

Taking the example above on GET and paraphrasing it on POST can work just as well, so that a POST to /people/[person id] will update (or add) a ceratin person while a POST to /people/ will update/add multiple ones.

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