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openapi-generator
OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec (v2, v3)
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InfluxDB
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Gin
Gin is a HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance -- up to 40 times faster. If you need smashing performance, get yourself some Gin.
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Stream
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goa
Design-first Go framework that generates API code, documentation, and clients. Define once in an elegant DSL, deploy as HTTP and gRPC services with zero drift between code and docs.
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swagger2markup
A Swagger to AsciiDoc or Markdown converter to simplify the generation of an up-to-date RESTful API documentation by combining documentation that’s been hand-written with auto-generated API documentation.
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Create Production-Ready SDKs With gRPC Gateway
We'll use the excellent kin-openapi Go library to convert the OpenAPI 2.0 schema to OpenAPI 3.0.
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OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries from OpenAPI Specs
What is your language?
I've found kin-openapi to be good for Go:
https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi
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swaggo/swag alternative, but should generate OpenAPI 3.0 spec file
I recently used https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi openapi2 and openapi2conv to convert the v2 yaml to v3 yaml.
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Any good OpenAPI 3.x spec generator for a Go REST API?
This might not be very helpful, but I've have found every "generate spec from code" package to be limited sooner or later, and that's across languages. I finally settled on writing the spec file by hand, linting it in CI using openapi-cli, and using kin-openapi in Go tests to ensure responses match their schema.
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What are your favorite packages to use?
oklog/ulid to generate IDs. coreos/go-oidc for validating JWTs I get from auth. google/go-cmp for comparing structs in tests (unless the project is already using Testify). spf13/pflag because life's too short for Go's flag handling. getkin/kin-openapi for validating reqests/responses against my OpenAPI spec (in tests).
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Do you use swagger to generate backends?
Then define the corresponding YAML/JSON specification (again manually) either using Swagger 2.0 (with go-swagger) or OpenAPI 3 (with kin-openapi), and
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getkin/kin-openapi is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of kin-openapi is Go.
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