Chapter 6. Implementing HATEOAS
This chapter contains the following recipes:
- Turning DTOs into Spring HATEOAS resources
- Building links for a Hypermedia-driven API
- Choosing a strategy to expose JPA entities
- Retrieving data from a third-party API with OAuth
Introduction
What is HATEOAS? If you have never seen this word before, it can appear to be difficult to pronounce. Some pronounce it hate-ee-os; others say hate O-A-S. The important point is to remember that this abbreviation stands for Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOAS). At the very least, you should remember Hypermedia. Hypermedia as a resource's capability to embed nodes that target external resources. Being connected to other resources, a hypermedia resource is also constrained ...
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