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What are you referring to when you say “no link in sight” in regards to REST?
by jbenner-radham 9y ago
What are you referring to when you say “no link in sight” in regards to REST?
- axlee 9y agoBasically, instead of having a "User" response built like this: User { name: "Bob" id: 1 } You would have something like this: User { name: "Bob" href: "http://www.example.com/api/users/1" }
- gabrielcsapo 9y agoThis kind of reminds me of hateoas. [1] [1] https://spring.io/understanding/HATEOAS https://spring.io/understanding/HATEOAS
- o1lab 9y agoThank you for your input. I will consider this feature going ahead.
- jbenner-radham 9y agoIsn’t that HATEOAS and not REST specifically? I don’t remember anything in Roy Fielding’s dissertation specifying any type of response body.
- nilved 9y agoHypermedia as the Engine of Application State
- JimDabell 9y agoREST APIs must be hypertext-driven: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...
- jbenner-radham 9y agoThank you for that link. I’ve read through Roy’s original dissertation but apparently missed some of the details. This post helps clarify things.