springfox
Automated JSON API documentation for API's built with Spring (by springfox)
swagger-core
Examples and server integrations for generating the Swagger API Specification, which enables easy access to your REST API (by swagger-api)
| springfox | swagger-core | |
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| 7 | 5 | |
| 5,901 | 7,338 | |
| 0.0% | 0.1% | |
| 0.0 | 8.3 | |
| about 1 month ago | 7 days ago | |
| Java | Java | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
springfox
Posts with mentions or reviews of springfox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-02.
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What do you think about generating OpenAPI specs from code?
The only issue I saw on this is that controllers get a lot more cluttered. See an example.
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Auto OpenAPI Generation — The Network Doesn’t Lie!
Examples include Swagger-Core, SpringFox, NSwag / Swashbuckle, Swagger-express / HAPI-Swagger, Django-REST-Swagger / Flask-RESTplus, etc.
- OpenAPI Specification: The Complete Guide
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Springboot version 2.6.3
From a casual Google search - short answer, yes. Longer answer, see the link.
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What's the best way to create API docs?
If Java and Spring, you can use SpringFox: write unit tests and get generated API docs as a bonus.
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An issue with JOOQ after upgrading to 3.15.1
It seems that there might be some other configuration as the error traces back to springfox.io.
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Need Help regarding API autoamtion framework !
Teams that use spring can easily create specs by using Spring Fox https://github.com/springfox/springfox
swagger-core
Posts with mentions or reviews of swagger-core.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-14.
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Auto OpenAPI Generation — The Network Doesn’t Lie!
Examples include Swagger-Core, SpringFox, NSwag / Swashbuckle, Swagger-express / HAPI-Swagger, Django-REST-Swagger / Flask-RESTplus, etc.
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OpenAPI Specification: The Complete Guide
JAX-RS is a java implementation of the OpenAPI Specification. - GitHub - swagger-api/swagger-core
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URL Shortener: Java & Spring complete tutorial
Now Swagger UI is configured and we can start documenting our API. Inside UrlController, above every endpoint, we can use @ApiOperation annotation to add description. Depending on your needs you can use some other annotations.
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Using Swagger API
Here is an example from Swagger APIs GitHub:
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Organize code by concepts, not layers
Im mostly in C# land nowadays, but this seems to be the java version. I’m not sure it is as deeply integrated, as I think Java has a few popular server frameworks.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing springfox and swagger-core you can also consider the following projects:
springdoc-openapi - Library for OpenAPI 3 with spring-boot
grpc-swagger - Debugging gRPC application with swagger-ui.
openapi4j - OpenAPI 3 parser, JSON schema and request validator.
problem-spring-web - A library for handling Problems in Spring Web MVC
Swashbuckle.AspNetCore - Swagger tools for documenting API's built on ASP.NET Core
spring-boot-security-saml-sample - SBS3 — A sample SAML 2.0 Service Provider built on Spring Boot.
utoipa - Simple, Fast, Code first and Compile time generated OpenAPI documentation for Rust
Spring Boot - Spring Boot
drf-spectacular - Sane and flexible OpenAPI 3 schema generation for Django REST framework.
swagger - OpenAPI (Swagger) module for Nest framework (node.js) :earth_americas:
swagger-maven-plugin - JAX-RS & SpringMVC supported maven build plugin, helps you generate Swagger JSON and API document in build phase.
springfox vs springdoc-openapi
swagger-core vs springdoc-openapi
springfox vs grpc-swagger
swagger-core vs openapi4j
springfox vs problem-spring-web
swagger-core vs Swashbuckle.AspNetCore
springfox vs spring-boot-security-saml-sample
swagger-core vs utoipa
springfox vs Spring Boot
swagger-core vs drf-spectacular
springfox vs swagger
swagger-core vs swagger-maven-plugin