multiple hierarchical objects

[janet smith]

Hi guys, 

let's say I have 2 different hierarchical tree.

1. items (group) - item

2. there are report, configration for each item

should I make my api like this:

items/report (summarized report)

item-2/report (individual report)

or

report/items

report/item-3

Your feedback is appreciated.

[sune jakobsson]

Slightly moor details please :), wit this limited info I would choose your latter suggestion.

Sune

[JJ Keys]

Hi Janet,

With the Item Report you could have it two ways

/items/{item_id}/report
*and/or*
/reports/item-reports/{item_id} 

and for the Item Summary Report

/reports/item-summary-report

You want to avoid things like: /items/reports for the summary report because you would normally expect the id of an individual item (e.g /items/item-9) to come after the /items/.. part of the url.

Cheers
JJ

[Per Persson]

Here a report can be created for a single item or for all items. What if you want to create a report for a selection of items?
Maybe a report shouldn't be a resource but just generated by an extra parameter (or even a content type)?