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by LoSboccacc
2899 days ago
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> Fielding looked at the Web, and abstracted it, and calls it REST Architecture. yeah the perfect rest protocol is the web and the perfect rest clients are the humans that navigate the action represented on the hypermedia. that said, there's some value to be had in discoverability, even if rest grossly gloss over how to discover parameters for the action that the state holds. |
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There absolutely is and API systems like graphql have taken that to heart (playing with a graphql explorer is delightful).
But forcing all programmatic interactions through a "discoverability" layer is not useful, yet that's essentially what REST (as originally formalised) mandates.