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What is Swagger?
Swagger is open source software that provides powerful metadata representation of your RESTful API. It is a specification for documenting RESTful APIs. It is machine-readable and language agnostic, so there are different implementations for different platforms.
In Azure API Apps, Microsoft adapts Swashbuckle to implement Swagger 2.0. So, the API you create can be easily discoverable using metadata in Swagger 2.0 format, which is widely accepted and supported.
Support for Swagger 2.0 (Refer: http://swagger.io/) API metadata is built into Azure App Service. Each API App can specify a URL endpoint that returns metadata for the API in Swagger JSON format. The ...
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