Generating Hypermedia links in a Web API

Question

I\'m curious to know how others have dealt with the issue of generating hypermedia links for their web APIs? Specifically, I\'m using ASP.NET Web API, and am torn between having

Answer 1

I've added my solution here

It uses class and property attributes in combination with an ApiController extension method to populate a ResourceLink object in your entity. It can also populate links for any collection properties. It's not the finished article but it is quite intuitive and will make a good start.