RESTful versioning... where to version in the URL?

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REST api versioning (only version the representation, not the resource itself)

Hello,

So I need to version my restful services. I understand that many place v1 or something similar in the URL to denote use of the "first version" of a resource. My question is, where in the URL should the versioning portion go?

Most people do the following:

http://myDomain.com/v1/pictures/etc

However, I'm thinking that the following makes more sense:

http://myDomain.com/pictures/v1/etc

This denotes that you want to use version 1 of the "pictures" resource, however you could use a different version of other resources. What are people's thoughts on this?

Thanks

Answer 1

This question has been covered here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2024600/rest-api-versioning-only-version-the-representation-not-the-resource-itself

and here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/972226/how-to-version-rest-uris

Answer 2

It doesn't matter. If it's "restful", the client can discover the location by following links (be it in hypertext or in headers).