Re:Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOAS)
by danbruc on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @06:59PM
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Then I will have to read the thesis once more. Sigh. I am pretty sure it talks about APIs, that is interfaces consumable by software. What a browser does, formatting and rendering a response, is not what I would call consuming an API. Well, the browser is actually consuming an API, it sends URLs and receives HTML or whatever. Is that the API the thesis has in mind, HTTP itself, while I was always thinking about the one on top, the one that lets me transfer money from my account to someone else? In some ways that would make sense, in others not at all.
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Re:Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOAS)
by whstl on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @07:52PM
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> "Is that the API the thesis has in mind, HTTP itself, while I was always thinking about the one on top, the one that lets me transfer money from my account to someone else?"
Yep, that's it.
Field's REST/HATEOAS can be used as a "layer" underneath a more traditional, schema-bound, RPC-like API. This is what Google did with GData, for example.