RESTful undelete

Question

It is a fairly common requirement to support undeletes or delayed/batched deletions for data services. What I\'m wondering is how to implement this in a RESTful way. I\'m torn b

Answer 1

"Deleted" (trashed) items also may be considered as a resource, right? Then we can access this resource in one of these ways (e.g. for a deleted a user):

PATCH deleted_users/{id}
PATCH trash/users/{id}
PATCH deleted/users/{id}

or some people may think this is more restful way:

PATCH deleted/{id}?type=users

and in payload goes something like this:

{ deleted_at: null }