Methods

RESTable accepts eight common HTTP methods in requests to entity resources.

GET

GET requests returns all entities in the selected resource that match a given set of conditions. If no conditions are given, all entities in the resource are returned.

POST

POST inserts an entity or a list of entities from a data source into the selected resource.

PATCH

PATCH updates one or more existing entities in the selected resource, identified by a given set of conditions. If no entity is found by matching against conditions, a 404 response is returned. To update multiple entities with a single request, which is a potentially unsafe operation, include unsafe=true as meta-condition. Matched entities are updated with the content from a provided entity, from a data source.

PUT

PUT is the duplicate-safe way to insert new entities in a resource. PUT will find any single existing entity in the selected resource matched by a given set of conditions. If no entity is found, a POST will be made to the resource with the entity provided from a data source. If an entity is found, a PATCH will be made on that entity with the content from an entity provided from a data source. If more than one entity is found, a 400 response is returned.

DELETE

DELETE will find all entities in the selected resource matched by a given set of conditions. If only one entity was found, that entity will be deleted from the resource. If more than one entity was found, a 400 response is returned. To override this behavior and delete all found entities, which is a potentially unsafe operation, include unsafe=true as meta-condition.

REPORT

REPORT performs a GET request, but instead of returning representations of resource entities selected by the request, the number of entities is returned. REPORT, as implemented in RESTable, is technically a variant of GET, and all resources supporting GET, also supports REPORT. All API keys that have GET access to a resource, also have REPORT access. All REPORT requests have the same response body format:

Properties marked in bold are required.

Property name	Type	Description
Count	integer	The number of entities selected by the request

HEAD

HEAD performs a GET request, but instead of returning representations of resource entities selected by the request, only the response headers are returned. HEAD is technically a variant of GET, and all resources supporting GET, also supports HEAD. All API keys that have GET access to a resource, also have HEAD access.