> The #1 objection I've seen to REST as Fielding described it is that it seems to basically assume that the human is the API client. Reading the essay, it seem

> The #1 objection I've seen to REST as Fielding described it is that it seems to basically assume that the human is the API client. Reading the essay, it seems that is indeed the goal that the client is the human, so it would be weird for that to be an objection. If so, the objection then seems rather that a RESTful API is not terribly useful for a lot of systems. Which is fine, not everyone has to love hamburgers either. But yeah, I'd love to see a proper non-trivial example.