RESTful Web Clients

Chapter 8. Collection+JSON Clients

“The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.”

H. Allen Smith

Bob and Carol

“You know, Carol, I’ve been reviewing the Collection+JSON hypermedia format and wondering if it would help us on our quest for a more adaptable API client.”

“Interesting that you should mention Cj, Bob. My team tells me it may be promising, too.”

“Right. I notice that Cj looks a lot like Siren and HAL but also has some things in the docs about the CRUD pattern similar to your plain JSON client.”

“Exactly! And, along with support for CRUD, Cj offers support for templates similar to the action elements in Siren.”

“I am a bit skeptical about the way Cj sends data in its Items collection.”

“Right, Cj requires additional metadata for each domain object and it will be hard to simply deserialize our domain objects into the response ...