OpenAPI
OpenAPI Specification
Adopt
Foundation
OpenAPI Initiative, Linux Foundation
Since 2011
Judgement: Adopt
De-facto REST description with tooling for almost every language.
Originally Swagger (2011), now the de-facto standard for describing REST APIs. Tooling exists for almost every language and platform.
OpenAPI is the reference success story for what an open standard can become. ODCS is essentially trying to do for data what OpenAPI did for REST APIs.
At a glance
- Category
- Contracts
- Governance
- OpenAPI Initiative, Linux Foundation
- Status
- Stable; OAS 3.1 current
- First released
- 2011
Links
Related standards
Other standards in Contracts.
- AsyncAPI — AsyncAPI Specification
- GraphQL
- ODCS — Open Data Contract Standard
- gRPC — gRPC Remote Procedure Call
- OData — Open Data Protocol (v4)
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