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Mervin
Mervin

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Refactoring Web Services

Hi everyone! I have a web service with multiple methods and I just want to ask if it is better to combine all the methods into one and put a parameter('action') to determine what controller to run.

What do you think is faster, maintainable and easy to extend?

Thank you!

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Eldlabs

I would suggest to seperate them from start, it will help you in future as code base starts to grow. Try to think of SOLID Principles (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID_(objec...) when coding.

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John Warren Tañiza

In my opinion, it is better to separate each methods according to its usage. It would be maintainable in the long run.

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Pratik Ambani

In addition Eldlabs' suggestion, don't forget 12 Factor App while writing web services.