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by _a_a_a_ 1286 days ago
Perhaps you could explain what that means, given REST is defined fairly well in Fielding's dissertation, and fits in quite well with pushing data around with the HTTP method indicating the operation. Wat else?
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HATEOAS [1], i.e. you discover the available operations dynamically. In my opinion totally impractical unless the service is directly consumed by humans or you are building some kind of naked objects application [2] with all its implications. But this is what really distinguished REST from other remote procedure call implementations and this is also what essentially nobody does.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_objects