HATEOAS

Responses include links to the next possible actions.

What is HATEOAS?

HATEOAS is the REST idea that responses include links to what you can do next, so clients follow links rather than hard-coding URLs. Few APIs go this far.

{ "orderId": 981, "status": "placed",
  "links": { "cancel": "/orders/981/cancel", "items": "/orders/981/items" } }

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Updated September 27, 2026