I’m new to REST API and I was wondering if

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I’m new to REST API and I was wondering if

my resources that I model should mimic the structure of the database? For example, there’s a property called “balance” for my users resource. However this property isn’t stored in the DB, but is generated every time from a combination of database data and data from other services. So is it totally fine to include this kind of a property that will come from a bunch of different places and will have a lot of calculation behind it?

If this is true, should I think of my dB models and rest resources completely separately? Should I just think of my database as one of the ways to get data for my rest model, but not limited to it?

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16.06.2020