Another API-Blueprint, RAML and Swagger Comparison
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The document compares API documentation frameworks: API Blueprint, RAML, and Swagger, highlighting their features, tooling, and community adoption. It discusses factors such as format, REST modeling, authentication methods, and design approaches, noting pros and cons for each framework. The author suggests considerations for choosing the right API framework based on consumer needs and available tooling.
Another API-Blueprint, RAML and Swagger Comparison
- 1. ANOTHER API-BLUEPRINT, RAML AND SWAGGER COMPARISON Ole Lensmar, SmartBear Software
- 2. We’re building an API ! And for metadata & documentation we’re gonna use.. ehm…!?
- 3. XML? JSON? Schemas? YAML?Markdown? Resources? Traits? Methods? Code Generation? Testing? Open Source? Tools? Documentation? Parameters? OAuth? Clients? Community? GitHub? Adoption? iOS? HTML5? Android? Interop?Management? Hypermedia? ???
- 4. Narrowing down the choices API-Blueprint RAML Swagger What about Hypermedia? ioDocs? WADL? WSDL 2.0?
- 5. So now we want to know… What’s behind the name? How does it model REST? What tools are available? Is there a community / following? What’s it gonna be?
- 6. What’s behind the name? API-Blueprint RAML Swagger Format Markdown YAML JSON Spec License MIT ASL 2.0 / TM ASL 2.0 Available at GitHub GitHub GitHub Sponsored by Apiary Mulesoft Reverb Current Version 1A3 0.8 1.2 Initial commit April, 2013 Sep, 2013 July, 2011 Commercial Offering Yes Yes No API Design Approach Top-down Top-down Bottom-up
- 7. How does it model REST? API-Blueprint RAML Swagger Resources X X X (“api”) Methods/Actions X (“action”) X (“method”) X (“operation”) Query Parameters X X X Path/URL Parameters X X X Header Parameters X X X Representations (status codes, mime-types) X X X Documentation X X X
- 8. How does it model REST – part 2 API-Blueprint RAML Swagger Authentication Basic, Digest, Oauth 1&2, (*) Basic, API-Key, OAuth 2 Representation Metadata <any> (inline) <any> (inline/external) JSON Schema (subset) Nested Resources X X Composition/Inheritance Resource Models Traits, Resource Types File inclusions X API Version metadata X X Sample Representations X X
- 9. What about tooling? API-Blueprint RAML Swagger Authoring apiary.io API-Designer (3rd party) Ad-hoc testing apiary.io API-Console Swagger-UI Documentation X X X Mocking X X (3rd party) Server Code (3rd party) java java,scala,ruby, node.js Client Code (3rd party) java,groovy,scala,objc,and roid,c#,flash,php,python,ru by,js Generate from code java, 3rd party (go,python) Validation X X (java) X Parsing C++ (nodejs, c#) Java, js Java, js
- 10. Some Community Stats API-Blueprint RAML Swagger Stackoverflow questions 37 18 596 Most Github Stars (on single project) 613 478 1859 Total Github projects (search on name) 72 52 340 Google search (name + “ rest”) 807K 64K 5M
- 11. So what gives!? Swagger: – Pros: high adoption rate, good code-level tooling, large community – Cons: bottom-up, lacks advanced metadata constructs RAML – Pros: good online design tools and mature supporting infrastructure, seemingly useful advanced constructs – Cons: very new to the game, low adoption, lacks code-level tooling API-Blueprint – Pros: good online design tools, good community involvement – Cons: new to the game, low adoption, lacks advanced constructs and code level tooling
- 12. How decide? What do your API consumers need/expect? – Documentation – Client code / SDKs / etc – Technologies What do you need? – Approach – Tooling – Technologies Do you need API management? Commercial Support?
- 13. Give them a try! apiary and MuleSoft have free tiers – Try modeling an API with their tools – it’s fun! Try corresponding tools for Swagger
- 14. References Evaluating API development tools Hello World Product API With Blueprint, RAML And Swagger An Overview of REST Metadata Formats