Consequences of POST not being idempotent (RESTful API)

Question

I am wondering if my current approach makes sense or if there is a better way to do it.

I have multiple situations where i want to create new objects and let the server

Answer 1

I think you could also collapse creation and update request into only one request (upsert). In order to create a new resource, client POST a “factory” resource, located for example at /factory-url-name. And then the server returns the URI for the new resource.