Why Drupal 8 won't ship with REST content negotiation

Dylan Tack
Tue, 07/14/2015 - 02:59

Some friends on Twitter were alarmed by this Drupal change record: "Accept header based routing got replaced by a query parameter". This change replaces "Accept: application/hal_json" with "/node/1?_format=hal_json". The issues leading to this change are too lengthy to capture on Twitter, so I'll give my perspective here.