Every API should provide links to all member documents
Sounds easy enough, but for large collections this might be nontrivial, or at least backend specific.
For JSON, the main issue is that hyperlinks are not part of the core spec.
Collection+JSON seems like a lucky match using the same links array format as in the npolar api
What we really want for big collec…
Sounds easy enough, but for large collections this might be nontrivial, or at least backend specific.
For JSON, the main issue is that hyperlinks are not part of the core spec.
Collection+JSON seems like a lucky match using the same links array format as in the npolar api
What we really want for big collections is not just being able to page through it using "first" "next" "last" (link relations) - but define subsets that are useful to download just parts of the data.