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Can I use the API to figure out that, for instance, the x-wing is /vehicles/1 and Mustafar is /planets/7? Otherwise, how would I know?

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As well as ID, we'll do some fuzzy matching on the URLs as well, so

GET /api/vehicle/t-65-x-wing

and

GET /api/planets/mustafar

will also work

This doesn't work on pokeapi.co

PokeAPI is getting an update - http://phalt.co/if-you-have-data-they-will-consume-it/

and it will have better fuzzy matching.

I think it would be nice to also provide an endpoint that lists all the resources as an array of objects where the key is the id and the value is the name. Maybe something like this:

  GET /resources/ships
  [
    { 1 : "Tantive IV" },
  ]

So RESTfully, I think this is normal. You should be able to call a resource and then be fed back all of those resources (usually paginated to say, 20 per request).

It will have this style of lookup.

Do you mind discussing how you did the fuzzy matching?

My initial guess would've been dynamic programming (levenstein distance), but if this is API-wide, did you make a suffix tree?

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