This is a working repository for the hypermedia panel at APICraft Detroit 2014.
Format:
- 2 hour panel
- 10 minute press by each panelist
- 1 hour of conversation
When: 1pm-3pm, Monday, July 28th 2014 Where: Grand Circus http://grandcircus.co/ downtown Detroit
Panel will be followed by a hands-on hypermedia hackathon that will run from 3:30pm to 7pm.
Panelists:
- Mike Amundsen (@mamund)
- Mike Kelly (@mikekelly85)
- Steve Klabnik (@steveklabnik)
- Kevin Swiber (@kevinswiber)
- Jørn Wildt (@JornWildt)
- Markus Lanthaler (@MarkusLanthaler)
Panelists: Kin Lane (@kinlane)
Title: State of Hypermedia Today
- What is the state of hypermedia?
- How did we get here?
- Where are we going?
- Where should we be going?
- What can we do during hackathon?
- What are two things everyone should leave API-Craft thinking about?
- adding hypermedia to an API is a way to improve the API's usability (@mamund)
- the more hypermedia information in a response, the more stateless that response can be (@mamund)
- Hypermedia allows us to go beyond CRUD-influenced API design, enabling a task-based message design consisting of current resource state and available transitions. This provides a richer interaction model between client and server. (@kevinswiber)
- The best way to improve the state of the art is to see hypermedia applied to more use cases and have feedback shared publicly with the community. (@kevinswiber)
- What are the metrics of success for your API? How do hypermedia designs contribute to or detract from those metrics? (@mikekelly85)
- Is adding links to a response enough? (@MarkusLanthaler)
- What are the benefits of adding HTTP method and payload encoding information to links - aka forms/actions for APIs? What are the problems? Is it worth it? (@JornWildt)
- Are more complicated media types, that require more than an HTTP library and a JSON parser to deal with, moving away from the "simplicity" that has been driving web API adoption over SOAP? (@mikekelly85)
- Does adding hypermedia really help if the data itself can't be understood without out-of-band knowledge? (@MarkusLanthaler)
- What are the pros and cons of moving hypermedia controls to a separate, machine-readable document (API descriptions) compared to embedding them directly in resource representations? (@MarkusLanthaler)
- How would an ideal hypermedia client library look like? (@MarkusLanthaler)
- People often have a knee jerk reaction to dismiss hypermedia APIs as a complex approach to API design. What is your three sentence pitch to convince these people that it is not overkill, and in fact can be a simpler approach over time? (@MattMcLartyBC)
Formats:
- Collection+JSON - http://amundsen.com/media-types/collection/format/
- UBER - https://rawgit.com/mamund/media-types/master/uber-hypermedia.html
- ALPS - http://alps.io/
- HAL - http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html
- Siren - https://github.com/kevinswiber/siren
- Hydra - http://www.markus-lanthaler.com/hydra/
- JSON-LD - http://json-ld.org/
- json:api - http://jsonapi.org/
- Mason - https://github.com/JornWildt/Mason