Not that it matters, but I actually did know URLs can be signed :) What I haven’t seen before is using this to address the problem of clients considering URLs as the API (instead of using hypermedia)
Stefan Tilkov @stilkov
26 Oct 2020
Signing URLs, what a cool idea! It’s so obvious, and apparently it’s been around for a while, but I’d never come across this before
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An inherent problem of hypermedia rest Apis: customers want to query data more flexible without breaking the evolution of the APIs and the hypermedia references should be resolved transparently on the server side if they actually need the data. All problems #GraphQL addresses
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GraphQL is a solution to a problem they wouldn’t have if they were provided with a real hypermedia API
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I would like to disagree to an extent: you still leave a lot of work to the clients which could be transparent to them. They are not interested into the hypermedia references but in some of the data fields sitting behind the references.
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Replying to @DesignedByBlind
I think you leave more work to the clients if you provide a data-centric API. Doing more on the server side reduces the need for the client to query.

Oct 26, 2020 · 4:24 PM UTC
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