This chapter will introduce approaches and tools for describing your services' APIs in a machine-readable format. First we will introduce the concepts behind Interface Definition Languages (IDLs) and will briefly introduce a number of such languages. Next, we will introduce the Swagger IDL framework and its associated tool chain in more detail, and we will conclude the chapter by illustrating how to use Swagger to define the APIs of one of the services in our bookstore application.
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5. Defining APIs
Cloves CarneiroJr.1 and Tim Schmelmer2
(1)Hollywood, Florida, USA
(2)Broomfield, Colorado, USA
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