Design the POST Endpoint for Creating a New Product

To add a new product to the collection represented by the URI, we can use the POST method.

Creating a new product

According to the specifications, “The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the resource identified by the Request-URI in the Request-Line.”

The above definition means that:

• The request will include an entity. This is an important point for validation and validation-related response.
• The server must accept the enclosed or included entity as an item that can be added to the collection of the resource identified by the URI. This is important because it means the server can’t process it as a part of a different resource.

Based on the above points, the following question comes to mind: How does the server know the format/MIME type of the entity? The answer to this lies in the structure of the POST ...