Getting started with OAS and RAML
Open API Specification (OAS) and RAML are the two most extensively used API description formats. Anypoint Designer lets you create a REST API using RAML or OAS (previously known as Swagger).
Although they both have a lot in common, it’s essential to understand the capabilities of both OAS and RAML so that we can choose our API specification language wisely.
OAS
OAS is an open source specification language founded in 2010 with huge community support. Its fundamental purpose is to keep API documentation, libraries, and code in sync:
- It supports both JSON and YAML to design API
- OAS is ideal if your application has response type-only JSON, as it takes a longer time to load other formats
- It is not very feasible in terms of code fragmentation and reusability
- It focuses more on the documentation of an API
Let’s move on to RAML.
RAML
RAML was founded by MuleSoft in 2013 with the goal of providing all...