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Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core: HATEOAS

This post is in my Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core series. It demonstrates how to design an HTTP API like a regular HTML website. Bringing the concepts of links and actions to your API allows your clients to consume it with ease. If you’re new to this series, here are earlier posts to get up to speed: Intro Object as Resource Hypermedia Siren If you have any questions, please follow me on Twitter. Actions In my last post I covered outputting a siren hypermedia payload from our ASP.NET Core MVC application.  Specifically I showed linking to each Todo item within… Read More »Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core: HATEOAS

Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core: Siren

This post is in my Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core series. It demonstrates how to design an HTTP API like a regular HTML website. Bringing the concepts of links and actions to your API allows your clients to consume it with ease. If you’re new to this series, here are earlier posts to get up to speed: Intro Object as Resource Hypermedia If you have any questions, please follow me on Twitter. Siren I mentioned that Siren was one media type that appeals to me because it supports both links and actions.  This is important because I generally build core… Read More »Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core: Siren

Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core: Hypermedia

This post is in my Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core series. It demonstrates how to design an HTTP API like a regular HTML website. Bringing the concepts of links and actions to your API allows your clients to consume it with ease. If you’re new to this series, here are earlier posts to get up to speed: Intro Object as Resource Hypermedia You probably have already heard the term hypermedia before.  Hypermedia and Hypertext are nothing new.  They were both coined in the 60’s by Ted Nelson. You’ve definitely used hypermedia in the form of HTML. HTML has a great… Read More »Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core: Hypermedia