Creating a machine-readable API definition
Even if creating a machine-readable API definition sounds like a daunting task, its benefits are worth the effort. Let’s see some of the things you can get after you have an available machine-readable API definition:
- Automation and tooling: From automated client and server code generation to generating documentation, there are many tools available, offering varied degrees of automation, to convert a machine-readable definition into other assets.
- Interoperability: Having a machine-readable API definition lets you easily move from one programming language or framework to another. More importantly, if you can do this, so can your API users. They can easily consume your API using their favorite programming language.
- Discoverability: Machine-readable definitions can be used to generate interactive documentation and sandboxes, where potential users can explore and sign up to use your API. This increases the discoverability...
