5. REST Decisions

• Status: accepted

• Date: 2023-07-13

5.1. Context and Problem Statement

Use the HTTP Status Codes and Verbs correctly

5.2. Decision Drivers

• Consistency

• Correctness

5.3. Decision Outcome

• Status Codes:

  • 200: To Get a resource or a list of resources

  • 202: To Create new objects with POST

  • 4XX: Return The Status Code of the Error Message, if an error occurs

• Verbs:

  • GET: Get a resource or a list of resources

  • POST: Create/Run/Pause/Cancel a resource

  • PUT: Update a resource

  • DELETE: Delete a resource

• Decision on Patch Verb

  • Not used due to similarity to update