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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.
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.
Provides warnings if tagged parameters do not match code, parsed parameters included in XML output and Doxygen-style tagfile (-D flag in 8.7). Partial C preprocessor support with -p flag. Support for #if/#ifdef control over documentation inclusion using the -D and -U command-line flags. Imagix 4D: customizable through style sheets and CSS
API description languages are sometimes called interface description languages (IDLs). The structured description might be used to generate documentation for human programmers; such documentation may be easier to read than free-form documentation, since all documentation generated by the same tool follows the same formatting conventions ...
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:
In April 2012, 3scale released a new version of its API Management Platform and Infrastructure, [5] including new features such as ActiveDocs, powered by the Swagger API framework developed by Wordnik, as well as allowing API providers to create interactive REST documentation out of the box.
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
Sandcastle is a documentation generator from Microsoft.It automatically produces MSDN-style code documentation out of reflection information of .NET assemblies and XML documentation comments found in the source code of these assemblies.