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I love the idea of this being standardized and am immediately thinking that a generic browser of application/hal+json resources would be a great developer tool.

by smoyer 14y ago

I love the idea of this being standardized and am immediately thinking that a generic browser of application/hal+json resources would be a great developer tool. I tend to agree with the idea that self should be top-level, but the other thing I'd like to have in the specification is versioning for both the specification itself and the API. How about something like: { ... "_version": { "hal": <some HAL version string>, "api": <some API version string> }, ... } Thanks for the thought you've obviously put into this ... we'll all benefit eventually!

AffableSpatula 14y ago
:) already working on a browser: https://github.com/mikekelly/hal-browser https://github.com/mikekelly/hal-browser very rough demo here: http://hal-shop.heroku.com/hal_browser.html http://hal-shop.heroku.com/hal_browser.html
- smoyer 14y ago
  Looks a lot like what I "saw in my head". Some code to get around SOP would let you point it at anyone's API ... a great way to learn an API is to see it with real data and you'd be able to navigate around the resources at will.