[rest-practices] text/html representation?

Bill Burke bburke at redhat.com
Wed Apr 28 12:14:30 UTC 2010


A weird idea has been going through my head lately.  What if, for when 
its practical, have your edit/action links accept 
application/x-www-form-urlencoded, and the rel attribute of the link 
points to an html form describing the interaction.

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I was trying to think of some simple advice for people designing REST
> APIs - things like "if you're documenting the URI scheme, it's not
> HATEOAS"
> 
> Would it be a worthwhile exercise for API designers to add a text/html
> representation of their resources? with forms for action buttons etc.
> 
> That way you could be confident your really API is hypertext driven. It
> would also be a nice way for API users to browse the API
> 
> Just a thought ...
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark.
> 
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