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by xg15 233 days ago
HATEOAS always seemed a bit like a solution in search of a problem to me. It was a nice idea for more convenient "manual exploration" of APIs if you're a human developer and all you have is curl - but I never understood for what kind of "production" scenario they were designing their constraints. The kind of automated client that could make actual use of the metadata always seemed more of a fantasy.

...until now. It seems they finally found their problem.