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What is a API contract?
An API Contract is the documentation of the API. This document is the place where you declare how your API will behave, it includes de endpoints urls, the actions of each endpoint, arguments, examples of the responses and any other detail, the development team think it is interesting to be documented.
What is an API and how do you design it?
API design refers to the process of developing application programming interfaces (APIs) that expose data and application functionality for use by developers and users. APIs are important to modern organizations, adding new capabilities to everything from their operations and products to their partnership strategies.
What is contract first API?
Contract-first development is a methodology where we first create a design document (or interface definition) that formally describes the REST API we are going to implement, before writing any actual prototype. OpenAPI (formerly Swagger) is not the only, but the most commonly used REST API markup language existing.
What should API documentation describe?
API documentation is a technical content deliverable, containing instructions about how to effectively use and integrate with an API. API description formats like the OpenAPI/Swagger Specification have automated the documentation process, making it easier for teams to generate and maintain them.
Who is an API developer?
An API developer acts as a conduit, taking an organization’s aspirations for the API economy and turning them into something practical. API developers’ primary focus, therefore, is to interpret the vision for the API that has been set by the organization’s stakeholders.
What does an API team do?
The API team manages APIs across their entire API lifecycle, including productization and, in some cases, monetization.
What are open API standards?
The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) defines a standard, language-agnostic interface to RESTful APIs which allows both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the service without access to source code, documentation, or through network traffic inspection.
What is contract-first and contract last approach?
In the contract-first web service, the “contract” (a WSDL definition of operations and endpoints and XML schema of the messages) is created first, without actually writing any service code. In the contract-last web service, existing logic is “exposed” as a web service and the contract is created at the very end.