Re:Microsoft REST API Guidelines
by zeveb on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @02:07PM
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> There is no magical "smart client" that somehow knows that rel=comments means that the link leads to comments about the current resource and can figure out it should POST there to create a new comment. It has no idea what the hell a "comment" is.
Yes there is: that client is a human being. The point of REST and HATEOAS is to write something that works properly for humans, and to which general software can specifically be adapted.
That's part of why I loathe single page apps and JavaScript so much: HTTP & HTML already offer an incredible expressive range, and JavaScript just tramples over the forms and scaffolding they create.
Yes there is: that client is a human being. The point of REST and HATEOAS is to write something that works properly for humans, and to which general software can specifically be adapted.
That's part of why I loathe single page apps and JavaScript so much: HTTP & HTML already offer an incredible expressive range, and JavaScript just tramples over the forms and scaffolding they create.