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Originally developed to support the Swagger framework, it became a separate project in 2015, overseen by the OpenAPI Initiative, an open-source collaboration project of the Linux Foundation. [2] [3] An OpenAPI Description (OAD) [4] represents a formal description of an API that tools can use to generate code, documentation, test cases, and more.
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.
Enhancements to Swagger 2.0 compliance. Additional information can be added to describe an API; for example, contact and license details. If a Swagger file is downloaded for the API, the additional information is written to the info field. Tags can be added to APIs and API operations for ease of grouping by application developers.
The tools listed here support emulating [1] or simulating APIs and software systems.They are also called [2] API mocking tools, service virtualization tools, over the wire test doubles and tools for stubbing and mocking HTTP(S) and other protocols. [1]
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
There are two previous major description languages: WSDL 2.0 (Web Services Description Language) and WADL (Web Application Description Language). Neither is widely adopted in the industry for describing RESTful APIs, citing poor human readability of both and WADL being actually unable to fully describe a RESTful API.
Screenshot of web API documentation written by NASA. A web API is an application programming interface (API) for either a web server or a web browser.As a web development concept, it can be related to a web application's client side (including any web frameworks being used).
The ability to insert a random UUID into any property by using the configurable modifier. Documentation is created regarding how to use the UUID to create context and consumer IDs when an SLA and version are created for a service. The 8.5.6 release was a "mod pack" which means it can be applied as a fix pack to an existing 8.5 installation.