Docker and Kubernetes for Java Developers

Documenting the API

Before a client can consume a service, it would need a service contract. A service contract defines all the details about a service; for example, how the service can be called, the URI of the service, and what the request and response formats are. Your clients will need to know how to interact with your API. Swagger is gaining a lot of ground with support from major vendors in the last couple of years. Swagger's specification presents all the details of your service resources and operations in a JSON format. The format of the specification is known as the OpenAPI specification (Swagger RESTful API documentation specification). It's human and machine readable, easy for parsing, transferring, and using in integration. The ...