Swagger is an open-source framework that simplifies API development, documentation, and testing. It provides a set of tools and specifications that allow developers to design, build, and document RESTful APIs with ease.
Swagger 2 (also known as Swagger 2.0 or Swagger/OpenAPI 2.0) is an earlier version of the Swagger specification, which has been widely adopted by developers and organizations.
Swagger can be integrated with REST APIs in below ways – A top-down approach – First API specification and then code generation. A botton-up approach – First API code and then Swagger integration. In this tutorial, we will learn the top down approach.
Now a days REST and Microservices have got a lot of momentum. At the same time, actual REST specification does not suggest any standard way to document the REST APIs that we are going to expose [like WSDL for SOAP]. As a result, everybody is documenting their APIs in their …
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