REST APIs must be hypertext-driven » Untangled
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URL
http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven
Description
What needs to be done to make the REST architectural style clear on the notion that hypertext is a constraint? In other words, if the engine of application state (and hence the API) is not being driven by hypertext, then it cannot be RESTful and cannot be a REST API. Period. Is there some broken manual somewhere that needs to be fixed?