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Re:What it means for an API to be RESTful by prologic on Thursday July 30, 2026 @09:26AM (#49109695)
Isn't this well defined already? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST

> REST (Representational State Transfer) is a software architectural style that was created to describe the design and guide the development of the architecture for the World Wide Web. REST defines a set of constraints for how the architecture of a distributed, Internet-scale hypermedia system, such as the Web, should behave.

And isn't it always misused, mis-represented basically all the time? Often confused with things that are basically just JSON API(s)?

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Re:What it means for an API to be RESTful by prologic on Thursday July 30, 2026 @09:37AM (#49109834)
It's kind of interesting to go through the examples in the article, because it largely really describes a HAL-style JSON API really. It in parts also described the Web Linking Standard (RFC 8288) too.
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Re:What it means for an API to be RESTful by wun0ne on Thursday July 30, 2026 @09:45AM (#49109965)
> And isn't it always misused, mis-represented basically all the time? Often confused with things that are basically just JSON API(s)?

The article makes this point.

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Re:What it means for an API to be RESTful by prologic on Thursday July 30, 2026 @09:48AM (#49109995)
I could be wrong, but I also think the article kind of gets it wrong too
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