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Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core: Hypermedia Clients

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. This specific posts covers hypermedia clients. If you’re new to this series, here are earlier posts to get up to speed: Intro Object as Resource Hypermedia Siren HATEOAS If you have any questions, please follow me on Twitter. Hypermedia Clients My perception is that most people new to hypermedia driven APIs think that consuming hypermedia happens via a magic library. Or via some code generation that ultimately gives you a client library that understands every endpoint. I’m not… Read More »Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core: Hypermedia Clients

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