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Software Architecture with Spring 5.0
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Software Architecture with Spring 5.0

by René Enríquez, Alberto Salazar
August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
9h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Embracing (Spring) HATEOAS

When talking about the REST subject, it's always worth discussing the Maturity Model, created by Leonard Richardson, which establishes three steps that a REST API should accomplish in order to be considered mature:

  • Resources
  • HTTP verbs
  • Hypermedia controls: HATEOAS

In this section, we will focus on the last element. HATEOAS is intended to provide information about what we can do next, using additional Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) that are included as part of the resource.

Let's revisit our banking example, in order to explain HATEOAS from a practical view. Suppose that you have the following URI to query the customer's bank statements: http://your-api/customer/{customer_id}/bankStatements.

[  { "accountStatusId": ...
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ISBN: 9781788992992