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So instead of a hard coded url it's a hard coded reference to a url? How does it deal with a breaking changing? Say the order of the links changes? It doesn't s

So instead of a hard coded url it's a hard coded reference to a url? How does it deal with a breaking changing? Say the order of the links changes? It doesn't seem like this works without some out of band information.

kelseyfrog 4y ago
They are keyed using rels. You're right, they aren't relying on order; that would be terrible. And yes, JSON doesn't "have" rels. This is worked around by specifying a mimetype which does. Is it turtles all the way down? Yes, but not all turtles are equivalent. You should already be specifying a "Content-Type": application/json, it's not too much to change that to application/vnd.api+json and write a spec somewhere.