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  • I feel like you only need to add a relation to Author on the edited book. What do you think about it? Commented Jun 2, 2019 at 22:20
  • I did think about that @AlbanDericbourg - part of the current approach is actually also laziness now that I think about it. With this request I can just put things in the URL and not have to manage any request body, serialization etc Commented Jun 2, 2019 at 22:44
  • First, the characters and structure of the URI shouldn't be of importance to a client as the URI should be provided by the server anyways and a client shouldn't parse or interpret such a URI to start with. Next, IANA does provide links to registered HTTP methods including links to the RFC proposing these methods. One of these methods is LINK that basically does what you want to do, even though it is defined in an "ancient" HTTP 1.1 RFC Commented Jun 3, 2019 at 1:47