RESTful Web Clients

Chapter 6. Siren Clients

“First you will come to the Sirens who enchant all who come near them.”

The Odyssey, Circe

Bob and Carol

“Hi, Bob. Just stopping by to talk to you about our work on creating more adaptable API clients.”

“Hello, Carol. Glad you stopped by. So, what’s our next move?”

“Well, the team has decided they want to explore using the Siren hypermedia type this time. It seems to have more hypermedia features than HAL.”

“Yes, I heard about Siren. It’s being used for some Internet of Things work, right?”

“Right. Zetta is the IoT platform. Siren looks like it has lots of support for describing actions within the responses themselves.”

“Yes, these look a lot like HTML FORMS, don’t they? A URL, a method, and a set of arguments. Nice. But didn’t you solve this problem for HAL with the HAL-FORMS extension?”

“The problem with the HAL-FORMS solution is that ...