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Discussion on: A Brief Introduction to REST APIs

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Andrea Chiarelli

Where is hypermedia? An API cannot be called RESTful if it doesn't implement HATEOAS (Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State)
See roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-a...

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Ben Greenberg

Yes, you are correct. I wrote this a while back in October and forgot to include hypermedia in addition to the elements of statelessness, caching, etc. Thanks for the reminder.