i have question similar to this article ( https://www.py4u.net/discuss/747796) but the given answers have 3 different opinion/answer and i dont know which one is the best practice to use, ive searched everywhere but cant find the definite answer.can someone please help me which answer is the right one and has a prove(trusted source that backing it up) that it is a best practice, sorry for bad english i hope you can understand what im saying,

CodePudding user response：

To me answer #2 in the article makes most sense. You will be ok going with it

CodePudding user response：

The best way is to add filters in get request. Response in this post gives one example -

Best practice for filtering results from a RESTful API call?

In rest everything is a resource so if you want to filter items within same resource you can pass filter criteria along with pagination parameters. Generally only for separate resources we create a new API for optional parameters or to filter within same resource separate APIs should not be created. They are additional testing and maintenance cost.