Comment by dragonwriter
7 years ago
> there's always a HATEOAS comment somewhere and I've never really managed to figure out what that means beyond using URI's rather than a database IDs
You know how browsers use URLs to find content and Content-Type to decide what to do with it, and links ib URLs in content (so as anchor tags in HTML) to find related content: that's HATEOAS in the original REST API.
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