November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
420 pages
10h 29m
English
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Hypertext Application Language
The Hypertext API Language (HAL) is a promising proposal that sets the conventions for expressing hypermedia controls (such as links) with JSON or XML. Currently, this proposal is in the draft stage. It mainly describes two concepts for linking resources:
- Embedded resources: This concept provides a way to embed another resource within the current one. In the JSON format, you will use the _embedded attribute to indicate the embedded resource.
- Links: This concept provides links to associated resources. In the JSON format, you will use the _links attribute to link resources.
Here is the link to this proposal: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kelly-json-hal-06. It defines the following properties for each resource ...