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GolDDranks on Nov 29, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Poor Man's API

Just to clear things up a bit (as I remember not knowing about this side of "RESTfulness" a while ago myself): an important part of REST is relying on hypertext, that is pointing to other resources by using URLs. Just returning an ID of a referenced object/resource as a plain number isn't very RESTful, but returning an URL of that object/resource is.

omnibrain on Nov 30, 2022 [–]

Yes, but who really does this? I never encountered an API doing it. (Not saying they don't exist!)

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