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0 pointsNonNefarious3y ago0 comments

After hastily searching for "client" and reading how it was used in several places, I would NOT say that he means a person.

But I also don't think he's talking about APIs, which is what the semantic debate seems to be about in this thread. I'm not trying to undermine your point; just to clarify that I was still talking about UI vs. API.

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recursivedoubts3y ago

I agree: a lot of folks don't think a hypermedia response is an API response, which maybe deserves its own essay.

A hypermedia response is an API response for a hypermedia client, and additional possible API calls to the server are then discovered within that hypermedia response via hypermedia controls (e.g. links and forms) At least, that's my position, but I understand that many people would not call this an API (maybe just a RESTful system?) The language here is pretty darned academic, and Fielding didn't apologize for that:

https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/specialization

Unfortunately I think that unwillingness to come down a few pegs in abstraction ended up costing a lot in terms of confusion.

NonNefariousOP3y ago

Indeed. Anyway, nice essay and thanks for the thoughtful responses.

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