Data API Actions

Like most REST API's with the Data API you send requests to various resources, using different HTTP methods to indicate what action you are wanting executed.

Different actions supported by the Data API include:

• Read a record using GET, providing a primary key value to a record.
• List all records in a resource using a GET request to the resource itself.
• Search a resource with a GET request to a resource, specifying search parameters.
• Create a new record with a POST request to a resource
• Update an existing record with either a PUT (strict) or POST (non-strict) request to a resource.
• Delete a record with a DELETE to a resource.

Faking the HTTP method

If the programming language objects you are using to submit http requests don't support the PUT and DELETE request methods, then you can optionally just POST to the resource url and pass the special argument _method=PUT or _method=DELETE in a querystring.