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Design and Build Great Web APIs
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Design and Build Great Web APIs

by Mike Amundsen
October 2020
Intermediate to advanced
358 pages
8h 39m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Solution for Chapter 7: Prototyping APIs

In Chapter 7, ​Prototyping APIs​, we focused on translating our API design into a more-detailed working prototype using the OpenAPI Specification (OAS). The exercise at the end of that chapter (​Chapter Exercise​) contained instructions to first create a new WSD document that reflects a translation of the CreditCheck WSD diagram and the CreditCheck ALPS description document into an HTTP-style API. Then you were to take that WSD and produce a completed API definition document using SwaggerHub and the OAS format. Finally, you were to combine the ReDocly HTML template and your completed CreditCheck API definition (in JSON format) to produce a single-page interactive API document for your API.

HTTP-Style WSD ...

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