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Open API standards are becoming increasingly common for describing and documenting APIs. One benefit of using an Open API specification is that you can make documentation and specifications from client code. Another benefit is that many API management tools support the Open API specification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In brief,\u00a0OAS (OpenApi Specification) is a standard, language-agnostic interface to RESTful APIs which allows both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the service without access to source code, documentation, or through network traffic inspection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are some advantages of using an OpenAPI Specification:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The libraries and tools listed below, categorized by implementation technology, can assist you in creating an OpenAPI Specification (OAS) document for your present REST API application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
swag automatically generates RESTful API documentation with Swagger 2.0 – swaggo\/swag<\/a> zero-rails_openapi generating OpenAPI Specification 3 (OAS3, formerly Swagger3) JSON documentation for Rails application. – zhandao\/zero-rails_openapi<\/a>– wagger-php is a php swagger annotation and parsing library which generates interactive OpenAPI documentation for your RESTful API using doctrine annotations. – zircote\/swagger-php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n swagger-autogen performs the automatic construction of the Swagger documentation – swagger-autogen<\/a> – npm- drf-spectacular generate a schema for api – tfranzel\/drf-spectacular<\/a>– JAX-RS is a java implementation of the OpenAPI Specification. – swagger-api\/swagger-core<\/a>– Springfox – springfox\/springfox<\/a> The springdoc-openapi helps automating the generation of API documentation using Spring Boot projects springdoc\/springdoc-openapi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The two OpenAPI implementations for .NET are Swashbuckle and NSwag. – ASP.NET Core web API documentation with Swagger<\/a> \/ OpenA<\/a>P<\/a>I | Microsoft Docs<\/a>– The ability to access the enormous tool ecosystem that surrounds OpenAPI is a big benefit. Even for API validation, you have OpenAPILint, Spectral, BLST OAS Scanner. However, the hundreds of lines of code in the APIs still need tedious learning, comprehending, and overwhelming testing difficulties. So I want to talk about a new tool on the block that is really a game changer and goes by the name CherryBomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Imagine having an online tool all in one that generates a comprehensive real-time endpoints map and guides you along using a params table. Wouldn\u2019t that be sweet?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Actually, I always say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but seeing it for yourself is worth ten times that. So to make things short, click the link to blstsecurity.com<\/a>, upload your own OpenAPI specification file (it can be a JSON or YAML file), and check the results.<\/p>\n\n\n
– go-swagger brings to the go community a complete suite of fully-featured, high-performance, API components to work with a Swagger API: – Swagger 2.0 implementation for go<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nRuby<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
rspec-openapi Generate OpenAPI schema from RSpec request specs. – rspec-openapi<\/a>–
rswag expands the “request specifications” of rspec-rails with a Swagger-based DSL for defining and testing API activities. – rswag<\/a> –
The grape-swagger gem provides an autogenerated documentation for your Grape API – ruby-grape\/grape-swagger<\/a>–
Swagger::provides an autogenerated documentation for your Grape API – fotinakis\/swagger-blocks<\/a>–
openapi-rails is a CRUD interface for Rails models with OpenAPI (Swagger) specification support and Swagger UI integration – slate-studio\/openapi-rails<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nPHP<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
NodeJs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
NestJS provides a dedicated module which allows generating OpenAPI (Swagger) – nestjs\/swagger<\/a> – swagger-express is a solution to integrate swagger with express – swagger-express – npm<\/a> – express-oas-generator generate OpenAPI (Swagger) specification for existing ExpressJS 4.x REST API applications – express-oas-generator<\/a> – npm – hapi-swagger is a OpenAPI (aka Swagger) plug-in for Hapi When installed it will self document the API interface in a project – hapi-swagger – npm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nPython<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Flask-RESTX is an extension that adds support for quickly building REST APIs – python-restx\/flask-restx<\/a> – Falcon-apispec generates OpenAPI specification for Falcon web applications – alysivji\/falcon-apispec<\/a> drf-yasg – generates schema for django application – axnsan12\/drf-yasg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nJava<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The Swagger Maven Plugin generate Swagger specs and customizable, templated static documents during the maven build phase – kongchen\/swagger-maven-plugin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nSpring<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
ASP.NET Core<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
OpenAPI.NET<\/a> SDK – microsoft\/OpenAPI.NET<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nOpenAPI Development Process<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
There are many free and paid tools that help API developers build, test, document, and make support code for their APIs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n