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Long story short:

-if you are designing a public API it might pay to make it "RESTful" and even use HATEOAS

-if your API isn't public, the it might be better to find a schema that better fits your particular problem

-if your clients aren't browsers - there's nothing to gain by using RSET, HTTP and JSON, apart from familiarity.



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