HATEOAS [1], i.e. you discover the available operations dynamically. In my opinion totally impractical unless the service is directly consumed by humans or you

HATEOAS [1], i.e. you discover the available operations dynamically. In my opinion totally impractical unless the service is directly consumed by humans or you are building some kind of naked objects application [2] with all its implications. But this is what really distinguished REST from other remote procedure call implementations and this is also what essentially nobody does. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_objects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_objects