REST API design: the endpoint which returns a report
Question
I need to create an endpoint which return some form of a report. Something like: api-v1/report?format=XML . And it report with custom XML-report. What should I do in case xsl? api-v1/report?format=XSL is it normal to answer on such request with XSL(Excel) file?
2 answers
solution1
2 2015-08-10 19:59:26
资源（数据）应独立于格式/编码，无论它是xml，json，xls，csv等，都应通过通常使用“ accept”标头完成的“内容协商”来确定。
solution2
0 2015-08-10 17:35:47
一种解决方案是使用可从中下载文件的URL进行响应，而不是发送文件的内容。
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