Let's consider that http://localhost:5000/api/messages/
is the URL for the collection of messages. If we add a number to the preceding URL, we identify a specific message whose id is equal to the specified numeric value. For example, http://localhost:5000/api/messsages/6
identifies the message whose id is equal to 6
.
Tip
We want our API to be able to differentiate collections from a single resource of the collection in the URLs. When we refer a collection, we will use a slash (/
) as the last character for the URL, as in http://localhost:5000/api/messages/
. When we refer to a single resource of the collection we won't use a slash (/
) as the last character for the URL, as in http://localhost:5000/api/messages/6
.
We have to compose and send an HTTP request with the POST
HTTP verb and the http://localhost:5000/api/messages/
request URL to create a new message. In addition, we have to provide the JSON key-value pairs with the field names and...