Got one version of the HATEOAS working but it doesn't look like it will go very far.
Basically while initializing the collection of pages in a publication, I do it manually and use the URLs provided by the API to set the URL on each of the pages model. Later when a publication is requested, I trigger the fetch on all the page models.
The problem is there are usually a lot of pages and all these calls take time. It looks funny when the starting view contains the default title for all the pages and slowly they are replaced by the actual title as they are loaded. I think it would be a better experience to show only few pages to start with and keep populating the list as additional pages are loaded. Perhaps it is better to modify the API or ignore the pages URL all together.
Basically while initializing the collection of pages in a publication, I do it manually and use the URLs provided by the API to set the URL on each of the pages model. Later when a publication is requested, I trigger the fetch on all the page models.
The problem is there are usually a lot of pages and all these calls take time. It looks funny when the starting view contains the default title for all the pages and slowly they are replaced by the actual title as they are loaded. I think it would be a better experience to show only few pages to start with and keep populating the list as additional pages are loaded. Perhaps it is better to modify the API or ignore the pages URL all together.
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