REST API - 从一个控制器中的其他端点保存数据

Question

I have two API endpoints, Person and Domain. Each of them has an own controller, used to handle GET/POST/PUT/DELETE requests.

Now, a domain has to be assigned to a person, so what I thought was the following. When adding a Person the user can send JSON to the REST API containing an URL which will be saved as a new Domain.

This is just a simple example. In the real life example, I have many other endpoints like FacebookAccount, LinkedInAccount, GooglePlusAccount etc.

My main question is: Is it a good practice, to allow the API user to add data to multiple Endpoints/Ressources in one request? Because, what I see as a problem is the following:

I don't want the user to do 10 requests to add a person with all his data like his domains, Facebook accounts etc. if he has multiple.

Answer 1

There's no need to do two requests if you can do it in one. It would be like doing two car trips to drop two things off at the same place, when you could have just taken both of them in the car with you at once.

Just add the {domain_id} to your POST data when you call POST /persons