如何为由多列主键组成的json对象构建URL？

Question

Step 1:

If i have a json object

{
    "person" : {
        "id" : 1,
        "lastName" : "Hammer",
        "firstName" : "Mike",
        ...
    },
}

I can address the object by its name and ID

GET http://host/persons/1/

Step 2:

Now I have a data model containing a primary key consisting of multiple attributes.

for example primary key is (firstName,lastName). There is no single primary key like "id".

{
   "person" : {
      "lastName" : "Hammer",
      "firstName" : "Mike",
      ...
   },
}

What is the syntax to build a URL for this?

GET http://host/persons/???

Answer 1

I believe the rendering of :

GET http://host/persons/1/

is based on custom code.

then you could use the following scheme for multi-field keys :

GET http://host/persons/field1/field2

in the given case:

GET http://host/persons/lastName/firstname  

In general URIs as defined by RFC 3986 (see Section 2: Characters) may contain any of the following characters: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-._~:/?#[]@!$&'()*+,;=. Any other character needs to be encoded with the percent-encoding (%hh) .

Your could read up on good practices for REST ful URIs on the web such as : http://blog.2partsmagic.com/restful-uri-design/

If you would like to include meta-data such as field-names in the url , you would have to put it in as key=value format for each field in the primary key of a multi-part key separated by a semicolon.

ex: GET http://host/persons/lastName=Doe;firstname=John/address/home