HATEOAS API

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Originally called REST, HATEOAS is a way of designing HTTP APIs as described in Roy Fieldings thesis. The acronym stands for Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State.

It distinguishes itself from other APIs by having the following properties:

HATEOAS APIs usually make heavy use of HTTP features like:

Comparison

Method Browser Accessible Backward Compatible Backward Compatible (default) HTTP Cachable No URL Construction URL as Identifier Stable Pagination
HATEOAS ? Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ?
media_types-serialization (HATEOAS) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Github (REST) Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes
Zalando No Yes Yes No No ? Yes
Facebook Graph API No Yes Yes No No No ?