However everything in this article should be applicable NOTE: At the time of writing this article OAS3 support had just come out for codegen. Have access to all the functionality we would have when developing a normal Flask web API. Simple wrapper around Flask reducing the boilerplate code you have to write as well. Is a Python library that "automagically" handles HTTP requests based on your OAS.
#SwaggerĪ set of open-source tools built around the OAS that help support development, including: Openapi or the Openapi Specification (OAS), defines a standard language agnostic approach toĭeveloping RESTful APIs, which are both human and machine readable. Let's very quickly go over the tools and libraries we will use.
The aim of this approach is that you update your specification file first. Now what happens if youįorget? Now your API is different to what's documented which can be a real pain for your users. You have to update your documentation or your openapi yaml/json file. One of the main problems you'll find with using openapi is that every time you update your API Which will try to minimise the differences between what's defined in the API I will go over an API/documentation first approach to building a RESTful API in We will be using Flask, Swagger Code-Gen (OpenAPI) and Connexions. In this article we will go over a documentation first approach to building APIs.
RESTful APIs are very popular at the moment and Python is a great language to develop