title: post body in REST
body: <p>I was referring to the O'Reilly book on REST api design, that clearly lays down the message format specifically around the areas of how links should be used to represent interrelated resources and stuff. But all the examples are for reading a resource (GET) and how the server structures the message. But what about a Create (POST) ? Should the message structure for create of a similarily inter-connected object be similar i.e through links ?? <br/>
   By the way of an example, let us consider we want to create a Person object with a Parent field . Should the json message format sent to server thru POST (Post msg body) be like :- </p>
  
  <pre><code>{
    name:'test',
    age:12,
    links:[
     {
        rel:'parent',
        href:'/people/john'
      }     
  ]
  }
  </code></pre>