Deep serialization

When you retrieve a resource (either as a single resource or part of a collection), it may contain links to other collection resources. For example an assembly may have links to its Operations. Each of these Operations in turn contains links to its Parameter Definitions. This means that in order to create a UI display of a list of Assemblies with their Operations it is necessary to retrieve the list of Assemblies, and then for each Assembly in the view, to retrieve its Operations. If you wish to show the parameters of each Operation in the same view, you have to go one level deeper.