Hypermedia Primer

The quickest hypermedia primer

Transcript

1. Quickest Primer Ever For Hypermedia
2. REST stands for...?
3. Representational State Transfer
4. First, what REST is not
5. What REST Isn't 1. CRUD 2. Pretty URLs 3. JSON 4. HTTP Verbs
6. It is not about exposing your database
7. But we design apps this way
10. If we use a state machine, then how do we transfer state from server to client?
11. Instead of transfering state, we transfer representations of state
12. Hence, Representational State Transfer
13. But what about state transitions?
14. Hypermedia
15. HATEOAS Hypermedia as the the engine of application state
16. The client relies on the server to tell it what it can do
17. Affordances
18. Example: Beer glass
19. Beer Glass: Empty State 1. Drink? No 2. Add beer? Yes 3. Complain of lack of beer? Yes
20. Beer Glass: Half Full State 1. Drink? Yes 2. Add beer? Yes 3. Complain of lack of beer? Yes
21. Beer Glass: Full State 1. Drink? Yes 2. Add beer? No 3. Complain of lack of beer? No
22. Code time