How to implement complex queries with a REST api?

Question

I\'m building an EmberJS app using ember-data.

Some of the functionality in my app requires quite complex queries.

As an example, let\'s say I have three entitie

Answer 1

You can transform your

GET /students/custom/born_before/{date}/taught_by/{teacher_id}

into

GET /students/?born_before={date}&taught_by={teacher_id}

which is just a "query by example" option: you can populate a model instance with the provided fields and make a query using them. The less fields, the broader is the search and more results to show.

This is the way JIRA's API works, for example.