You're reading from Robust Cloud integration with Azure Unleash the power of serverless integration with Azure

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786465573

Length 696 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Azure

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Cloud Computing

Authors (6):

Abhishek Kumar

Martin Abbott

Gyanendra Kumar Gautam

James Corbould

Mahindra Morar

Ashish Bhambhani

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. An Introduction to Systems Integration in the Cloud FREE CHAPTER

2. What Is an Azure App Service?

3. Getting Started with API Apps

4. What is Azure API Management?

5. Trigger Your First Logic App in Azure

6. Working with Connectors in Logic Apps

7. Azure Functions in Logic Apps

8. A Deep Dive into Logic Apps

9. Powerful Integration with SaaS Using Logic Apps

10. Advanced Integration with Powerful, Scalable Service Bus in the Cloud

11. Connecting to Event Hubs and an Introduction to IoT Hubs

12. EAI/B2B Integration Using Logic Apps

13. Hybrid Integration Using BizTalk Server 2016 and Logic Apps

14. Tooling and Monitoring for Logic Apps

15. Whats Next for Azure Integration?

Building, hosting, and consuming your first API App

Let's start with the app.

What is Swagger?

Swagger is open source software that provides powerful metadata representation of your RESTful API. It is a specification for documenting RESTful APIs. It is machine-readable and language agnostic, so there are different implementations for different platforms.

In Azure API Apps, Microsoft adapts Swashbuckle to implement Swagger 2.0. So, the API you create can be easily discoverable using metadata in Swagger 2.0 format, which is widely accepted and supported.

Support for Swagger 2.0 (Refer: http://swagger.io/) API metadata is built into Azure App Service. Each API App can specify a URL endpoint that returns metadata for the API in Swagger JSON format. The JSON metadata returned from that endpoint can be used to generate client code.

If you have a Web API project, then to add Swagger to the project you need to install Swashbuckle via NuGet. Swashbuckle enables the way Swagger metadata is generated...