REST-发布JSON列表，或发布多个帖子？

Question

Given two models: a Person , which has any number of Jobs , what is the most REST-ful way of submitting a new Person with his list of jobs?

The two obvious options that come to me are to JSON-ify the Person object with his list of Jobs.

"{"name":"ngmiceli",
  "jobs":[
      {"info":"foobar"},
      {"info":"lorem ipsum"},
      {"info":"ni!"}]}"

Stick that in the body, send the Post request, and be on your way.

The second obvious model would be much more broken up.

• Post a new Person with "name"="ngmiceli"
• Post a new Job to that person. (Repeat 3x)

There will be an API controller for both of these actions separately, but if the purpose of this application is on jobs, and a person is fairly meaningless (or even invalid) without jobs, wouldn't it make sense to submit the model of the peron with his/her jobs?

Finally, I read about batch updates, where you send a list of Post requests that make up the second option, but in a single batched Post.

If it matters, the requests are being generated by javascript and handled in C# web-api, and are communicating with a database via entity framework.

Answer 1

There is nothing un-RESTful about number 1. Even if the application is not Person-centered, a Person is a valid resource in your application.

Go for the simpler solution.