Re:Microsoft REST API Guidelines
by dragonwriter on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @06:56PM
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> So, this is one of my issues with HATEOAS. When does this _actually_ come up in practice?
For the type of systems REST is designed to address, all the time. Its not just random happenstance that REST was articulated in the context of an existing, well-known, widely-used system of that type (the WWW.)
Arguably, many API designers are neither designing the kind of systems REST is intended for nor designing things for which their priority is for them to be well-behaved components in a distributed system that, taken as a whole, is the kind of system REST is intended for. Which is fine, but then there is little reason to use REST and less to use pretend-REST.
For the type of systems REST is designed to address, all the time. Its not just random happenstance that REST was articulated in the context of an existing, well-known, widely-used system of that type (the WWW.)
Arguably, many API designers are neither designing the kind of systems REST is intended for nor designing things for which their priority is for them to be well-behaved components in a distributed system that, taken as a whole, is the kind of system REST is intended for. Which is fine, but then there is little reason to use REST and less to use pretend-REST.