Say I have an array of article resources in a compound document. Is this the right way to have the included resources?
Also, suppose I need to display all the articles along with title and the author’s name as a list. How do I access the author’s name for all the articles to display at once?
{
"data": [{
"type": "articles",
"id": "1",
"attributes": {
"title": "JSON API paints my bikeshed!"
},
"links": {
"self": "http://example.com/articles/1"
},
"relationships": {
"author": {
"links": {
"self": "http://example.com/articles/1/relationships/author",
"related": "http://example.com/articles/1/author"
},
"data": { "type": "people", "id": "9" }
},
"comments": {
"links": {
"self": "http://example.com/articles/1/relationships/comments",
"related": "http://example.com/articles/1/comments"
},
"data": [
{ "type": "comments", "id": "5" },
{ "type": "comments", "id": "12" }
]
}
}
},
{
"type": "articles",
"id": "2",
"attributes": {
"title": "second article!"
},
"links": {
"self": "http://example.com/articles/2"
},
"relationships": {
"author": {
"links": {
"self": "http://example.com/articles/2/relationships/author",
"related": "http://example.com/articles/2/author"
},
"data": { "type": "people", "id": "11" }
},
"comments": {
"links": {
"self": "http://example.com/articles/2/relationships/comments",
"related": "http://example.com/articles/2/comments"
},
"data": [
{ "type": "comments", "id": "7" }
]
}
}
}],
"included": [{
"type": "people",
"id": "9",
"attributes": {
"first-name": "Dan",
"last-name": "Gebhardt",
"twitter": "dgeb"
},
"links": {
"self": "http://example.com/people/9"
}
}, {
"type": "comments",
"id": "5",
"attributes": {
"body": "First!"
},
"relationships": {
"author": {
"data": { "type": "people", "id": "2" }
}
},
"links": {
"self": "http://example.com/comments/5"
}
}, {
"type": "comments",
"id": "12",
"attributes": {
"body": "I like XML better"
},
"relationships": {
"author": {
"data": { "type": "people", "id": "9" }
}
},
"links": {
"self": "http://example.com/comments/12"
}
},
{
"type": "people",
"id": "11",
"attributes": {
"first-name": "John",
"last-name": "Penn",
"twitter": "jpenn"
},
"links": {
"self": "http://example.com/people/11"
}
},
{
"type": "comments",
"id": "7",
"attributes": {
"body": "I like json better"
},
"relationships": {
"author": {
"data": { "type": "people", "id": "11" }
}
},
"links": {
"self": "http://example.com/comments/7"
}
}
]
}