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My current take on the issue is that REST advantages can only be realized if there a sufficiently smart client (aka human) driving the interaction.

• recursivedoubts 4y ago
  https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.html https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.h...
  • lliamander 4y ago
    That basically validates the conclusions I have come to as well. However, I would add that I think you can build machine APIs using hypermedia, but the API contract would different. You would essentially define an OOP API with MIME Types as class definitions. That is partly I think why Toy Fielding put so much emphasis on defining those types. But the real pwer of hypermedia - the ability to change those hypermedia relations dynamically - is really only useful for human-driven interactions.
    • lliamander 4y ago
      *Roy Fielding. Darn auto-correct.