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I'm not sure how HATEOAS could be bundled into a framework as there is no straightforward process for realizing it. Designing a generic hypermedia format is a huge undertaking and a RESTful service must be almost completely specified by such formats.

If you can implement your service entirely with existing formats, that could make things much simpler. But the only kind of hypermedia for machine data access that I've ever heard of is RDF, and there is nothing simple about that.