Years ago, I had an interview question that was essentially "model a restful query API." I'm not sure if it was the gotcha or that it was a bad question, but re

Years ago, I had an interview question that was essentially "model a restful query API." I'm not sure if it was the gotcha or that it was a bad question, but rest isn't a good fit. GET lacking a request body doesn't help, and except for long-running queries, modeling things as resources doesn't work. You can either design an API that isn't very restful or do confusing things to squeeze it into that box.