While viewing a web page, you can see data on the page and perform actions with it. How about a REST API? Typically, when you ask for a REST resource, you get the details of the resource back. How about sending the operations that you can do with the resource in the response?
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REST API
This is the fifth article in a series of articles on REST APIs: