Can post route with parameter cause issues?

I've seen a piece of code that uses post with parameters in the route and I want to change it:

Route::post('/some_route/{param1}/{param2}/{param3}', ...

It does not seem normal to me, but can that also cause issues?

kokoshneta

3 years ago

Best Answer

Level 27

Why does that not seem normal to you? Why should you not be able to use parameters in POST requests?

Even the built-in shallow nesting functionality in resource controllers include parameters in POST requests, like the example in the documentation, /photos/{photo}/comments.

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Ligonsker

3 years ago

Level 8

@kokoshneta thanks! didn't see that (just thought that I pass parameters already to POST in the request not in URL so it didn't seem right to me)

kokoshneta

3 years ago

Level 27

@Ligonsker Obviously, you only want to send the relevant information as query parameters, the parts that make sense to keep the URL meaningful within your URL structure. If you’re creating a post or comment, you don’t want to send the user ID, body text, etc. in the URL.

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