Exam Put vs POST

[Priscilla_Parodi]

Hello @Matt_Clairmont,

This is a great answer to your question:

When to use PUT versus POST?

It's all about REST semantics. POST basically that you are posting a request which is going to modify the server state. POST index/type { "foo": "bar" } will generate an _id server side and will index the document with this _id. PUT is used to send a resource to the server. PUT index/type/id { "foo": "bar" } will put or update a document named index/type/id in the server. Makes sense? More details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer

• POST: auto-generation of ids
• PUT: specify an id