Tag: urls
mnots blog: Web API Versioning Smackdown
mnots blog: Web API Versioning Smackdown
“The key insight here, I think, is that URIs are used for so many things persistent identifiers, cache keys, bases for relative resolution, bookmarks that overloading them with versioning and extensibility information as well makes them worse for all of their various purposes. By pushing these concerns into link relations and media types using HATEOS, you end up with a flexible, future-proof system that can evolve in a controllable way, without giving up the benefits of using HTTP (never mind REST).”
Help – Stack Overflow Api
Forgotten knowledge Jon Udell
Literate Programming – Nobody Understands REST or HTTP
Literate Programming – Nobody Understands REST or HTTP
Wow, this is relaxing to read. Up with making sense!
Haters gonna HATEOAS Timeless
“People would consider it ludicrous if they had to remember a dozen URLs to navigate a website, so why do we expect the consumers of our APIs to do so as well?”