Customizing Swagger documentation using annotations

The Swagger UI also provides annotations to further customize your documentation.

Listed here is some of the ;documentation to retrieve the todos service:

    "/users/{name}/todos": {      "get": {      "tags": [             "todo-controller"             ],      "summary": "retrieveTodos",      "operationId": "retrieveTodosUsingGET",      "consumes": [               "application/json"               ],      "produces": [                "*/*"               ],

As you can see, the documentation generated is very raw. There are a number of things we can improve in the documentation to describe the services better. Here are a couple of examples:

  • Provide a better summary
  • Add application/JSON to produces

Swagger provides annotations we can add to our RESTful services in order to customize the documentation. ...

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