[jbenner-radham]

What are you referring to when you say “no link in sight” in regards to REST?

[axlee]

Basically, instead of having a "User" response built like this:

  User {

    name: "Bob"

    id: 1

  }

You would have something like this:

  User {

    name: "Bob"

    href: "http://www.example.com/api/users/1"

  }

[gabrielcsapo]

This kind of reminds me of hateoas. [1]

[1] https://spring.io/understanding/HATEOAS

[jbenner-radham]

Isn’t that HATEOAS and not REST specifically? I don’t remember anything in Roy Fielding’s dissertation specifying any type of response body.

[o1lab]

Thank you for your input. I will consider this feature going ahead.

[JimDabell]

REST APIs must be hypertext-driven: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...

[jbenner-radham]

Thank you for that link. I’ve read through Roy’s original dissertation but apparently missed some of the details. This post helps clarify things.

[nilved]

Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State