Hypermedia: Taking your API to the next level

Learn the basics of what hypermedia adds to your API, and how API clients, from web apps to thick clients, evolve to focus on workflows, not URLs or data.

We will cover:

  • Hypermedia Basics
  • A simple API, with and without hypermedia elements, using HAL as the media type
  • A JavaScript web app API client, demonstrating how the client evolves when consuming a hypermedia API
Experience level: 
Intermediate
Session Time Slot(s): 
Time: 
Sep 12 2014 - 2:00pm-Sep 12 2014 - 2:50pm
Room: 
163C
Allowed Types: 
Session
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Speaker Bio(s): 

Pete Johanson has been a developer at Medsphere for 9 years, helping evolve a 30 year old EHR system to handle modern demands, workflows, and methods of access.

On a day to day basis, he wrangles MUMPS, C#, Java, and HTML/JS.

He has contributed to many open source projects including GTK#, RestSharp, MonoDevelop, and Boo. Most recently, he has been working on a new generic hypermedia (specifically HAL) client library for AngularJS.