We have some resources on a REST server structured like this:
/someResources/foo/someResources/bar/someResources/baz
where someResource is a server representation of a distributed object far away.
We want to tell the server to "refresh" its representation of that "distributed object" by looking at it out in the network & updating the server's cache i.e. we can not simply PUT the new value.
What is the clean REST way to this ?
a) Is it to POST to a /refreshes/ a new "refresh request" ?
b) Is it to PUT (with a blank document) to http://ip/someResources ?
c) Something else ?
I like (a) as it will give us an id to identify & track the refresh command but worried that we are creating too many resources. Any advice?