I know it's not a course about RESTful principles but maybe you'll consider in the future extracting resource id from request body to path parameter ? https://github.com/aspnetrun/run-aspnetcore-microservices/blob/c30712aa099bc335f5613a3b196ea1e943f800a5/src/Services/Catalog/Catalog.API/Controllers/CatalogController.cs#L85