Request to run a task in a rest API

Question

I want to build a RESTFUL API.

I have a resource with task plans.

The client should request the server to run task such as benchmarking on one of the task plan metrics.

which request should be used. POST or GET?

and what should be the uri?

/api/plans/<id>/run or /api/plans/run/<id> ?

Answer 1

I will go for a POST and since is an action on a specific plan, the url should be plans/id?action=run.

run is not a sub collection of a plan so query param must be used in this case