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HATEOAS pros/cons
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HATEOAS Pros/Cons

+Pros

  • Makes discovery easy (good for new integrators)
  • Encourages consistency
  • Client software does not need to maintain a list of URLs
    • but they do need to maintain a list of link relations
    • but link relations are cleaner?
  • Improves API reuse over long horizons with multiple clients

-Cons

  • You do need link names!
  • Does not encourage good URLs
  • Doing discovery every time is chatty
  • Proxying is a bugger because you have to rewrite all the URLs
  • Maintenance is more complex
  • GraphQL is probably better anyway
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