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REST my ass 💩 (eviltoast.org)

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Fun fact, I actually did implement JSON-HAL and peers wondered why I was putting this "silly _links dictionary member" in there.

I'll say I've seen other REST APIs using json and at least honor the concept of hypermedia, but in a useless way. They'll have links specified, but even within their API no consistency on what dictionary keys would refer to related resources versus data.