Hypermedia Examples

Relations

Links between related concepts

• Huddle API
• Gaug.es

Resources

Links to static resources to embed

• Weather App
• [RottenTomatos] (http://developer.rottentomatoes.com/docs)

Redirection

• Clients use dynamic bookmarks to refer to a resource to allow URIs to change. Discovery documents can provide lists of uris to populate bookmarks.

Reference data

Data sources for drop downs, combos, picklists

• curl -k -H "X-API-VERSION: 1" "https://api-sandbox.foxycart.com/resources/stores/store_countries"
  http://tinyurl.com/9bgk44p

Reduction of payload size

Progressive download of details

Re-distribution of effort

Intelligent vertical partitioning of functionality across servers

• <esi:include />
• [StackOverflow] (Hypermedia-stackoverflow)

Restriction of functionality

Enabling and disabling features based on the presence of links

Reactive applications

Links to control application flow.