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How is swagger used in the swagger tool chain?


Asked by Erick Walker on Dec 12, 2021 FAQ



It's generated by the Swagger tool chain (or third-party implementations of it) based on your service. It describes the capabilities of your API and how to access it with HTTP. It drives the Swagger UI and is used by the tool chain to enable discovery and client code generation.
Additionally,
Swagger does this by asking your API to return a YAML or JSON that contains a detailed description of your entire API. This file is essentially a resource listing of your API which adheres to OpenAPI Specification. The specification asks you to include information like: What are all the operations that your API supports?
Keeping this in consideration, Swagger is a set of open-source tools for writing REST-based APIs. It simplifies the process of writing APIs by notches, specifying the standards & providing the tools required to write and organize scalable APIs. Why use Swagger? As mentioned before, when we have to follow methodology, documentations are a ‘ must .’
Besides,
History of Swagger 1 Historically, Swagger was a specification for how to create an API definition file. 2 When the new version was released, i.e., Swagger 2.0, specification became the Open API Specification (OAS). 3 Now, swagger is no longer a specification but it is a collection of tools that use the Open API specification (OAS). More items...
Likewise,
Swagger UI, a part of Swagger, is an open source tool that generates a web page that documents the APIs generated by the Swagger specification.