Implementing custom actions for your RESTful API
Article 11 in the series of “ Pragmatic decisions for your RESTful API”, this post talks about how to implement custom actions in your RESTful API. This article also updates this older blog post (and actually does not provide the same recommendation).
Implementing custom actions: use actions in the URL even if it’s not RESTful
Some actions do not fit in the CRUD world. Consider, for example, powering on or off a virtual machine, subscribing a user to a list or starring a…