在此Spring Boot \\ MVC控制器中处理REST样式映射的正确方法是什么？

Question

I am working on a Spring Boot application that implements REST web services.

So I have the following doubt about the URL that have to be used to handle insertion of an item in the database.

So basially I have this controller class:

@RestController
@RequestMapping("/AccomodationMedia")
public class AccomodationMediaController {

    ..............................................................
    ..............................................................
    ..............................................................

    @RequestMapping(value = "/doUpload", method = RequestMethod.POST)
    public String handleFileUpload(HttpServletRequest request,
                                   @RequestParam MultipartFile[] fileUpload) throws Exception {

        System.out.println("handleFileUpload() START");
        if (fileUpload != null && fileUpload.length > 0) {
            for (MultipartFile currentFile : fileUpload){

                System.out.println("Saving file: " + currentFile.getOriginalFilename());

                accomodationMediaService.saveAccomodationMedia(currentFile);

            }
        }

        return "Success";
    }

}

So, this class contains the handleFileUpload() method that handle POST Http request toward the URI: /AccomodationMedia/doUpload to upload a file.

This URI is not in rest style because it contains an action and in this case I have to handle it as resoure.

My doubt is: I think that to insert a new AccomodationMedia resource I only have to handhe POST requesto toward the /AccomodationMedia URI because I am inserting a new AccountMedia resource in the database. Is it correct?

Answer 1

Yeah you are correct, each resource in a rest application should have at least one URI identifying it. And it's best when that URI makes sense and adequately describes the resource, just for example :-

To insert (create) a new customer in the system, we might use: POST http://www.example.com/customers

To read a customer with Customer ID# 33245: GET http://www.example.com/customers/33245 The same URI would be used for PUT and DELETE, to update and delete, respectively.