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title:      "HAL / HATEOAS"
ring:       trial
quadrant:   methods-and-patterns

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We still recommend the usage of HAL and HATEOAS.
 
But, depending on the resource structure, there are some pitfalls to be aware of:
- Increased amount of HTTP calls
- Parallelization of client-side calls is more difficult or even impossible when following links on heavily nested resource structures
- Consumer side code might get larger