Beginning Helidon: Building Cloud-Native Microservices and Applications

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9. Using OpenAPI

Dmitry Kornilov¹  , Daniel Kec¹ and Dmitry Aleksandrov²

(1)

Praha, Czech Republic

(2)

Sofia, Bulgaria

 

This chapter covers the following topics.

• Documenting your code using OpenAPI

• Reading generated API information using out-of-the-box endpoints

• Generating clients using OpenAPI Generator

About OpenAPI

In today’s technological landscape, it is of utmost importance for modern applications to have APIs, and RESTful APIs are at the forefront of the API economy. With the ability to transform any application into a language-independent service that can be accessed from ...