What is the need for 'discoverability' in a REST API when the clients are not advanced enough to make use of it anyway?
- by aditya menon
The various talks I have watched and tutorials I scanned on REST seem to stress something called 'discoverability'. To my limited understanding, the term seems to mean that a client should be able to go to http://URL - and automatically get a list of things it can do.
What I am having trouble understanding - is that 'software clients' are not…