14 Association resources
This chapter covers
- How to handle many-to-many relationships with association resources
- What name to choose for association resources
- How to support standard methods for association resources
- Strategies for handling referential integrity
In this chapter, we’ll explore a pattern for modeling many-to-many relationships between two resources using a separate association resource to represent the connection between the two. This pattern allows consumers to explicitly address an individual relationship between two resources as well as storing and managing extra metadata about that relationship.
14.1 Motivation
Most of the time, the relationships we’ll define between resources in an API will be simple and obvious because ...
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