Proper response for a REST insert - full new record, or just the record id value?
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I'm building a REST API which allows inserts (POST, not idempotent) and updates (PUT, idempotent) requests to add/update database to our application.
I'm wondering if there are any standards or best practices regarding what data we send back to the client in the response for a POST (insert) operation. We need to send back at least a record ID value (e.g. your new record is record #1234).
Should we respond with the full object? (e.g. essentially the same response they'd get back from a "GET /object_type/1234" request)
Should we respond with only the new ID value? (e.g. "{ id: 1234 }", which means that if they want to fetch the whole record they need to do an additional HTTP GET request to grab the full record)
A redirect header pointing them to the URL for the full object?
Something else entirely?
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