Which HTTP methods match up to which CRUD methods

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In RESTful style programming  we should use HTTP methods as our building blocks  I m a little confused though which methods match up to the classic CRUD methods  GET Read and DELETE Delete are obvious enough   However  what is the difference between PUT POST  Do they match one to one with Create and Update

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Create   PUT with a new URI          POST to a base URI returning a newly created URI Read     GET Update   PUT with an existing URI Delete   DELETE   PUT can map to both Create and Update depending on the existence of the URI used with the PUT   POST maps to Create   Correction  POST can also map to Update although it s typically used for Create   POST can also be a partial update so we don t need the proposed PATCH method

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Generally speaking  this is the pattern I use    HTTP GET - SELECT Request HTTP PUT - UPDATE HTTP POST - INSERT Create HTTP DELETE - DELETE

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The whole key is whether you re doing an idempotent change or not  That is  if taking action on the message twice will result in    the same    thing being there as if it was only done once  you ve got an idempotent change and it should be mapped to PUT  If not  it maps to POST  If you never permit the client to synthesize URLs  PUT is pretty close to Update and POST can handle Create just fine  but that s most certainly not the only way to do it  if the client knows that it wants to create  foo abc and knows what content to put there  it works just fine as a PUT   The canonical description of a POST is when you re committing to purchasing something  that s an action which nobody wants to repeat without knowing it  By contrast  setting the dispatch address for the order beforehand can be done with PUT just fine  it doesn t matter if you are told to send to 6 Anywhere Dr  Nowhereville once  twice or a hundred times  it s still the same address  Does that mean that it s an update  Could be    It all depends on how you want to write the back-end   Note that the results might not be identical  you could report back to the user when they last did a PUT as part of the representation of the resource  which would ensure that repeated PUTs do not cause an identical result  but the result would still be    the same    in a functional sense

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Right now  2016  the latest HTTP verbs are GET  POST  PATCH  PUT and DELETE  Overview   HTTP GET - SELECT Request  HTTP PUT - UPDATE HTTP POST - INSERT Create HTTP PATCH - When PUTting a complete resource representation is cumbersome and utilizes more bandwidth  e g   when you have to update partially a column HTTP DELETE - DELETE   Hope this helps   If you are interested on designing REST APIs this is an ansewome reading to have  website online version github repository

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I Was searching for the same answer  here is what IBM say  IBM Link   POST            Creates a new resource  GET             Retrieves a resource  PUT             Updates an existing resource  DELETE          Deletes a resource

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The building blocks of REST are mainly the resources  and URI  and the hypermedia  In this context  GET is the way to get a representation of the resource  which can indeed be mapped to a SELECT in CRUD terms    However  you shouldn t necessarily expect a one-to-one mapping between CRUD operations and HTTP verbs  The main difference between PUT and POST is about their idempotent property  POST is also more commonly used for partial updates  as PUT generally implies sending a full new representation of the resource   I d suggest reading this    http   roy gbiv com untangled 2009 it-is-okay-to-use-post http   roy gbiv com untangled 2008 rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven   The HTTP specification is also a useful reference      The PUT method requests that the   enclosed entity be stored under the   supplied Request-URI                  The fundamental difference between the   POST and PUT requests is reflected in   the different meaning of the   Request-URI  The URI in a POST request   identifies the resource that will   handle the enclosed entity  That   resource might be a data-accepting   process  a gateway to some other   protocol  or a separate entity that   accepts annotations  In contrast  the   URI in a PUT request identifies the   entity enclosed with the request --   the user agent knows what URI is   intended and the server MUST NOT   attempt to apply the request to some   other resource  If the server desires   that the request be applied to a   different URI

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It depends on the concrete situation   but in general   PUT   update or change a concrete resource with a concrete URI of the resource   POST   create a new resource under the source of the given URI   I e   Edit a blog post   PUT   blog entry 1  Create a new one   POST   blog entry  PUT may create a new resource in some circumstances where the URI of the new ressource is clear before the request  POST can be used to implement several other use cases  too  which are not covered by the others  GET  PUT  DELETE  HEAD  OPTIONS   The general understanding for CRUD systems is GET   request  POST   create  Put   update  DELETE   delete

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There s a great youtube video talk by stormpath with actually explains this  the URL should skip to the correct part of the video   stormpath youtube video  Also it s worth watch it s over an hour of talking but very intersting if your thinking of investing time in building a REST api

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The Symfony project tries to keep its HTTP methods joined up with CRUD methods  and their list associates them as follows    GET  Retrieve the resource from the server POST Create a resource on the server PUT  Update the resource on the server DELETE   Delete the resource from the server   It s worth noting that  as they say on that page   In reality  many modern browsers don t support the PUT and DELETE methods    From what I remember  Symfony  fakes  PUT and DELETE for those browsers that don t support them when generating its forms  in order to try to be as close to using the theoretically-correct HTTP method even when a browser doesn t support it

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