How to structure REST resource hierarchy?

Question

I\'m new to server side web development and recently I\'ve been reading a lot about implementing RESTful API\'s. One aspect of REST API\'s that I\'m still stuck on is how to go

Answer 1

The goal is to build convenient resource identifiers, don't try to cross-reference everything. You don't have to repeat your database relations in URL representation :)

Links like /product/{id}/buyer should never exist, because there already is identifier for that resource: /user/{id}

Although it's ok to have /product/{id}/buyers-list because list of buyers is a property of product that does not exist in other contexts.