2021-12-14T22:11:31Z
Representational State Transfer
The Hypermedia Constraint
The Hypermedia Constraint (erstwhile known as HATEOAS) is a feature of REST whereby, when treating a complying system as a state machine, subsequent states (or rather their identifiers) are embedded in the representation of the current hypermedia resource. A website that shows a page with links nominally qualifies, with the user clicking on the links in the role of the state transition function.