I personally like collection+json as a response type for REST. I will say that my own efforts at using a hypermedia-containing response type for a REST api sha

I personally like collection+json as a response type for REST. I will say that my own efforts at using a hypermedia-containing response type for a REST api shared across several teams have been mostly wasted effort. Consumers of the api treat the responses as plain-old JSON which somewhat kills the advantages of having a proper REST response in the first place . . .