RESTful Web Clients

Chapter 9. Hypermedia and Microservices

“Tricks? Gadzooks, Madam, these are not tricks! I do magic. I create, I transpose, I transubstantiate, I break up, I recombine—but I never trick!”

Merlin, The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao

Bob and Carol

“OK, let’s get right to it, Carol.”

“Right, Bob. So far, we continue to have good success using the hypermedia formats for the client apps. However, I notice that some of your server-side teams want to make their own choices about which media types they support.”

“Yep. As we’ve adopted more of a microservice style on the backend, each product team is starting to make their own decisions on these things.”

“Well, if everyone gets to pick any format they want, things can get out of hand. We can’t keep rewriting client apps each time a team changes their mind.”

“Agreed. Hm... Isn’t there something we can do to provide some level of freedom, but limit the range of options?”

“How about we give teams a list of approved media types? If we ...