API Design · Junior · Question 67 of 75

What is HATEOAS?

✓Correct answer: Hypermedia as the engine of application state: responses include links to related actions and resources, so clients navigate by links
2An authentication header
3A JSON compression format

Explanation

It's part of Fielding's REST constraints. It's rarely used fully in practice, but pagination links are a common partial form.

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