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• Simple to call.
• It creates the Response HTTP response Body and Content-Type Header automatically.

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In many ways, GetObject and GetDatabaseItem are the same, including sharing many of the same arguments. GetObects differs from GetDatabaseItem in the following ways:

• GetDatabaseItems returns GetDatabaseItem returns the resource object in serialized JSON (i.e., stringified JSON) whereas GetObject returns a handle to the JSON object.
• GetDatabaseItems automatically GetDatabaseItem automatically updates the Response HTTP response Body with the resource object and the Content-Type Header whereas GetObject leaves this to the calling process to handle.
• GetDatabaseItemsGetDatabaseItem will create a self and a  collection HATEOAS links in the resource object if the optional SelfURL argument is used whereas GetObject only creates a self HATEOAS link..
• GetDatabaseItem does not do any error checking before it updates the HTTP response Body and the Content-Type Header where as GetObject performs a lot of error checking.

Since GetObject only returns a handle to the JSON object, it is the responsibility of the calling process to serialize the resource and update the HTTP response (e.g., Body, Content-Type Header, Status Code, etc.).This produces the following resource object: