How to Use OpenAPI for Secure and Robust API Integration

• RESTest

  1 199 7.9 Java

  RESTest: Automated Black-Box Testing of RESTful Web APIs

  

Because the OpenAPI Specification is so widely used and agreed upon across the industry, numerous tools have been built to simplify the task of API development. There are tools to validate requests (such as Dredd or RESTest), automate the writing of API documentation (such as Stoplight or DeveloperHub), and even generate SDK code for many client languages (such as APIMatic CodeGen or OpenAPI Generator). While an API developer can certainly go it alone and build without any assistance, it’s certainly helpful to have many toolchain options when building an OAS-conformant API.

• swagger-ui

  131 25,507 9.8 JavaScript

  Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.

  

Ultimately, an API is most usable when it conforms to a standard. In addition to OAS-conformant APIs being more usable, OAS has led to several tools—like Swagger and APIClarity—built for developers to better understand the APIs they’re working with. Swagger comprises a suite of tools used for the design, development, documentation, and testing of APIs. APIClarity observes real-time traffic to and from an API, and then compares actual usage against the API’s specification.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• openapi-generator

  234 19,807 9.9 Java

  OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec (v2, v3)

  

Because the OpenAPI Specification is so widely used and agreed upon across the industry, numerous tools have been built to simplify the task of API development. There are tools to validate requests (such as Dredd or RESTest), automate the writing of API documentation (such as Stoplight or DeveloperHub), and even generate SDK code for many client languages (such as APIMatic CodeGen or OpenAPI Generator). While an API developer can certainly go it alone and build without any assistance, it’s certainly helpful to have many toolchain options when building an OAS-conformant API.

• apiclarity

  9 471 4.0 Go

  An API security tool to capture and analyze API traffic, test API endpoints, reconstruct Open API specification, and identify API security risks. 

  

For example, APIClarity is a tool that observes all of the API traffic within your Kubernetes environment. Based on traffic observation, APIClarity infers an OpenAPI description for those APIs. This is especially helpful if the API creator never defined or provided such a description. It also surfaces potential problems with existing APIs, such as requests made to undocumented, shadow APIs or continued use of deprecated, zombie APIs. If you’re getting started on the path toward OAS compliance, then tools like APIClarity can be a great source of insight and observability.

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