Ask HN: Using REST design for complex function calls?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1000671I like everything I've read about REST but am confused about how to use REST designs for an API with mostly complex, math-y function calls that compute values & return them.
Because the functions require complex - potentially, arbitrarily large - inputs, it's too difficult to pass them in via GETs.
Is there discussion or articles somewhere about using REST for computational APIs rather than for resource-based APIs?