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Pure vs Practical REST

05.10.2012

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This is a useful table I often go back to, comparing pure REST (such as HATEOAS) with the "practical" REST so often found in the field:

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Nice Robot replied on Thu, 2012/05/10 - 10:08am

The primary difference between practical and pure is service description and discovery. It's rarely implemented in practical REST. All the other differences you point out are more about the usefulness of those features to a specific application. Service discovery is ignored because of the effort involved to implement it vs ROI.