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Discussion on: Should SQL Query through REST API be a GET or a POST?

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tq-bit

I think I get your idea now.

I'll be honest, doing REST like this is rather unfamiliar to me. The closest lesson learned I've had on what you name prepared statements is a bound operation or bound function in OData, which exposes a procedure in the form of a URL. Like this, you would ever only have to send a single query + payload, therefor staying true to restful principles.

docs.oasis-open.org/odata/odata/v4...

Now adding OData principles just for the sake of dynamic queries might not be worth it, but perhaps there's a thing or two which might come in handy for you.

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Nicolas Penot

OData principles are in the essence what we should have.
We only need to send SQL to the database server (POST), the database server validates and holds them in a list. Then we call them by their "tag" (GET) with the binding values, e.g. user_id=23&order_id&43...

Also, it will dramatically improve the process to GET data from queries because they're going to be "soft parsed" instead of "hard parsed" at each call.

PS: I didn't know OData, but it's inspiring specifications, thanks tq-bit :)