On: Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API

[veesahni]

HATEOAS is first and foremost about the API being self describing.

Quoting from wikipedia: "A REST client enters a REST application through a simple fixed URL. All future actions the client may take are discovered within resource representations returned from the server."

[protonfish → veesahni]

I would disagree and say it is first and foremost about using hypermedia as the engine of application state.