Association Relationship

[kshychko]

@onthebreeze , simple Association Relationship is not listed in the current specification. Is this type of relationships going to be supported by the specification for API Serialisation or will be just ignored?

[onthebreeze]

My feeling is that, aside from the directed association between interfaces (representing a hateoas link), we should ignore general class-class relationships for API generation (maybe not for JSON-LD generation though). That's because I see a common use case being the import of a large E-R model like the core component library or some large system database model - and default behaviour to follow all those relationships might lead to messy API specs. I'm thinking it's better that the modeller deliberately changes simple relationships to aggregations or compositions and gets an output better aligned with design intent.