My Hypermedia and ASP.NET Web API talk from Oredev RestBugs sample (for of Howard Dierking's repo) using templates: https://github.com/glennblock/RestBugs Collection+Json: https://github.com/glennblock/collectionjson

1. Hypermedia and
ASP.NET Web API
Glenn Block
@gblock

2. Hypermedia 101

3. What is
Hypermedia? iou s
Prev
Catalog
Embedded links in HTTP Ne
xt
responses which are application
state transitions

4. What is
Hypermedia?
Embedded links in HTTP
responses which are application
state transitions

5. What is
Hypermedia?
Embedded links in HTTP
responses which are application
state transitions

6. What is o va
l
pr
Hypermedia? A p
Fulfillment
Order
Embedded links in HTTP Ca
nc
responses which are application el
lat
io
n
state transitions

7. What is
Hypermedia?
Not a new concept

8. What is
Hypermedia?
Not a new concept

9. What is
Hypermedia?
Not a new concept

10. What is
Hypermedia?
Not a new concept

11. What is
Hypermedia?
Not a new concept

12. What is
Hypermedia?
Not a new concept

13. What is a
Hypermedia API API
A web API that returns
responses containing
hypermedia

14. What is a
Hypermedia API
Not this

15. What is a
Hypermedia API
This is better

16. What is a
Hypermedia API
And this is really good

17. How does a
hypermedia work? API
Server embeds links to
resources

18. How does a
hypermedia work? Client
Clients identifies available links
and their associated urls

19. How does a
hypermedia work?
Client
Client navigates to the chosen link

20. Hypermedia
The concept is simple

21. Hypermedia and
Web API
How do we implement it?

22. COLLECTION
+JSON HTML
HAL ATOM
Media Types
Hypermedia is conventionally
surfaced via the media type SIREN
Hypermedia can also be
surfaced via headers

23. Formatters and Media Type
Hypermedia
Formatter
Media Type API
Formatters create media type Formatter Controller
representations from objects
Media Type
Formatters are the key place Formatter
for hypermedia to be rendered

24. Controller
Media Type
populates a
model with
links
Models
Media Type API
One approach is to have a Formatter Controller
media type specific model
Formatter
renders the
The application populates the model and
links
model, and a custom formatter
renders it

25. Controller
Media Type
returns a set
of DTOs
Templates
Media Type API
Another is to have media type Formatter Controller
specific templates.
Formatter
The application returns a model renders
template
with links
passed to a formatter.
The formatter renders using a
a template (like razor)

26. Rest Agent
Client

27. More information
http://codebetter.com/glennblock
http://amundsen.com/media-types/collection/
http://github.com/howarddierking/restbugs
http://github.com/tavis-software/RestAgent