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Re:Beyond 10,000 Lines: Lessons Learned from a Large Phoenix... by aikah on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @07:32PM (#12916467)
I thought the idea was to make an API behave like a webpage by using hyperlinks that represents the state of the application, so in theory a "smart" client could navigate an API autonomously like a human interacts with a web page ? Because otherwise it's no different from RPC.
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Re:Beyond 10,000 Lines: Lessons Learned from a Large Phoenix... by anthonybullard on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @08:25PM (#12916815)
I think you are thinking of HATEOAS. Read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS?wprov=sfla1
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