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I never heard of "Hypermedia API" either - sounds like some REST people are lazy, don't leverage things like content negotiation, URI de-referencing, etc and wi
by bsb 15y ago
I never heard of "Hypermedia API" either - sounds like some REST people are lazy, don't leverage things like content negotiation, URI de-referencing, etc and wind up with an HTTP-RPCish monster with a REST name tag on it.
- NanoWar 15y agoThis is one of the best explanations of the hypermedia constraint in REST I found, and it uses the term: http://oredev.org/2010/sessions/hypermedia-apis http://oredev.org/2010/sessions/hypermedia-apis
- itaborai83 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS
- bsb 15y agoHATEOAS yes, "Hypermedia API" no -- reducing the distributed state engine of HATEOAS at the same level of RPC-style APIs doesn't adequately convey the purpose of HATEOAS