Wait, what? That’s exactly what I said when I read this blog post. I am still making my way through the JSON API specification. And now it seems I might be wasting my time, as I should be learning HAL.
Whereas JSON API is almost like an “ORM over HTTP”, HAL does a lot less for you though, so it’s not really an apples-to-apples type of comparison.
HAL really is just a document format for a hypermedia API, like HTML is for hypertext. It doesn’t tell you how to express your domain model, and doesn’t really tell you how to use HAL to submit changes.
Sometime I think that I should just stop learning. What’s the point? By the time you learn a thing or two, it’s already obsolete and somebody somewhere has created something better, or wiser, or cheaper.
Meh…