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• Custom control over the creation of the resource object.
• Ability to include the Key ID within the resource object.
• Ability to identify a part of a Key ID as the resource ID.
• Lower-level errors can be trapped and handled as desired.
• The handle to the JSON object is compatible with the SRP_Json utility function (for even more custom control as needed).

Cons:

• Caller must serialize the JSON object.
• Caller responsible for setting HTTP response elements.

Method 3: Using the SRP_Json Utility Function

GetDatabaseItem is an example of a high-level service. That is, it relies upon a simple interface and default behavior. Like other high-level services, GetDatabaseItem is built on top of slightly lower-level services. The most important one of these is GetObject. (which is also a member of the HTTP_Resource_Services module). Let's look at an example of an API that uses the GetObject service to produce the same resource as the GetDatabaseItem service: