What technology is it called to concatenate small (REST) HTTP requests into one HTTP request?

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I'm working on a RESTful web service which contains multiple shop information.

There are 100 shops (each shop IDs are not continuous) I want to know the detail, and so I should request them to server, but I don't want to publish 100 GET requests for each shop ID because it's a waste of time and server's connection.

For example, if you want details of shops with ID 3,4,8,16,132,154 and 532, you publish seven requests...

GET /shop/3
GET /shop/4
GET /shop/8
GET /shop/16
GET /shop/132
GET /shop/154
GET /shop/532

Instead, it will be better calling single GET request to some URL like...

GET /shop/3,4,8,16,132,154,532

So ,my questions are

1. Are there any (well-known) issues using this strategy?
2. What technology is it called? "Concatenating" or something?

manpreet 2 years ago

I don't know if there's a name for the 'strategy', but the variable you supply (3,4,8,16,132,154,532) is a query parameter, and you'd probably write it like this:

GET /shop/?ids=3,4,8,16,132,154,532