Rocket model properties are not aligned across endpoints

Thanks for an amazing API. I’m working on an iOS app that will consume more or less the whole thing 🚀

I’ve come across one peculiarity, however. On /rockets the properties look like this:

{
    "id": "falcon1",
    "type": "Merlin A",
    "name": "Falcon 1"
}

whereas on /launces those properties are prepended with rocket_ like this:

{
    "rocket": {
        "rocket_id": "falcon1",
        "rocket_type": "Merlin A",
        "rocket_name": "Falcon 1"
    }
}

This makes it a little more troublesome to make global model serialization.

Is there a reason for this misalignment? 🙂

Cheers 🙌

[jakewmeyer]

Also planning on making the endpoints a bit more REST friendly for v3. Currently these are the v2 endpoints:

https://api.spacexdata.com/v2/launches https://api.spacexdata.com/v2/launches/all https://api.spacexdata.com/v2/launches/latest https://api.spacexdata.com/v2/launches/next https://api.spacexdata.com/v2/capsules https://api.spacexdata.com/v2/rockets https://api.spacexdata.com/v2/launchpads https://api.spacexdata.com/v2/parts/cores https://api.spacexdata.com/v2/parts/caps https://api.spacexdata.com/v2/info https://api.spacexdata.com/v2/info/history https://api.spacexdata.com/v2/info/missions https://api.spacexdata.com/v2/info/roadster

Some are too nested, and some don’t accept any kind of query parameters. v3 will look like this:

https://api.spacexdata.com/v3/launches https://api.spacexdata.com/v3/launches/latest https://api.spacexdata.com/v3/launches/next https://api.spacexdata.com/v3/launches/upcoming https://api.spacexdata.com/v3/launches/past https://api.spacexdata.com/v3/dragons https://api.spacexdata.com/v3/rockets https://api.spacexdata.com/v3/launchpads https://api.spacexdata.com/v3/capsules https://api.spacexdata.com/v3/cores https://api.spacexdata.com/v3/info https://api.spacexdata.com/v3/history https://api.spacexdata.com/v3/missions https://api.spacexdata.com/v3/roadster https://api.spacexdata.com/v3/ships

[jakewmeyer]

Negligible performance difference, one example is live for rockets. https://api.spacexdata.com/v3/rockets