In this article, Carson Gross explores how the term REST (Representational State Transfer) evolved to mean nearly the opposite of its original definition in modern web development. It traces how REST, originally defined by Roy Fielding to describe the web's architecture of hypermedia-driven interactions, came to be widely misused as a term for JSON-based APIs that lack the key hypermedia constraints that define true REST architectural style.
Why is he not mentioning restfulobjects? This is exactly what he describes, just encapsulated in JSON, not in HTML, and in a way that it can actually be automatically consumed as there are some guidelines how to structure the documents.
We use it at work, and I don’t like it. Its overly complicated and adds a lot of overhead (at least in the way we implemented it). A simple HTTP+JSON RPC with a good URL structure and a OpenApi documentation would be easier to understand, and to consume.
What the heck… Yeah, I wouldn’t want to use that either. While it may be a formalization, it seems like it would significantly increase complexity and overhead. That can’t be worth it unless it’s a huge enterprise system that has to work with generalized object types across teams or something.
Why is he not mentioning restfulobjects? This is exactly what he describes, just encapsulated in JSON, not in HTML, and in a way that it can actually be automatically consumed as there are some guidelines how to structure the documents.
We use it at work, and I don’t like it. Its overly complicated and adds a lot of overhead (at least in the way we implemented it). A simple HTTP+JSON RPC with a good URL structure and a OpenApi documentation would be easier to understand, and to consume.
Doesn’t help that it’s a multi-page document…
What the heck… Yeah, I wouldn’t want to use that either. While it may be a formalization, it seems like it would significantly increase complexity and overhead. That can’t be worth it unless it’s a huge enterprise system that has to work with generalized object types across teams or something.
I hadn’t heard of Restful Objects before.