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The OpenAPI Specification, previously known as the Swagger Specification, is a specification for a machine-readable interface definition language for describing, producing, consuming and visualizing web services. [1]
WADL was submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium by Sun Microsystems on 31 August 2009 [1], but the consortium has no current plans to standardize it [2]. WADL is the REST equivalent of SOAP's Web Services Description Languages (WSDL), which can also be used to describe REST web services. [3]
Javadoc (also capitalized as JavaDoc or javadoc) is an API documentation generator for the Java programming language. Based on information in Java source code, Javadoc generates documentation formatted as HTML and via extensions, other formats. [1] Javadoc was created by Sun Microsystems and is owned by Oracle today.
For example, the client uploads an image as image/svg+xml, but the server requires that images use a different format. 416 Range Not Satisfiable The client has asked for a portion of the file (byte serving), but the server cannot supply that portion. For example, if the client asked for a part of the file that lies beyond the end of the file.
The Swagger API project was created in 2011 by Tony Tam, technical co-founder of the dictionary site Wordnik. During the development of Wordnik's products, the need for automation of API documentation and client SDK generation became a major source of frustration.
An example of a popular web API is the Astronomy Picture of the Day API operated by the American space agency NASA. It is a server-side API used to retrieve photographs of space or other images of interest to astronomers, and metadata about the images. According to the API documentation, [15] the API has one endpoint:
yang-swagger is a yang-js based Swagger/OpenAPI specification generator; yangson is a Python 3 library for working with JSON encoded configuration and state data modeled using the YANG data modeling language. YANG Tools is an OpenDaylight Project toolset written in Java; Yang-Explorer - is a pyang-based Yang Browser and RPC Builder Application
For example, [12] Yahoo's open search API allows developers to integrate Yahoo search into their own software applications. The addition of this API provides search functionality to the developer's application whilst also increasing search traffic for Yahoo's search engine hence benefitting both parties.