Advantages of Swagger

The following are advantages of the Swagger Framework:

  • Synchronizes the API documentation with the server and client at the same pace.
  • Allows us to generate REST API documentation and interact with the REST API. The interaction with the REST API using the Swagger UI Framework gives clear insight into how the API responds to parameters.
  • Provides responses in the format of JSON and XML.
  • Implementations are available for various technologies, such as Scala, Java, and HTML5.

We have seen the implementation of the Swagger Framework in our Spring Boot microservice project to expose Account and Customer REST APIs. In this example, we created REST API documentation for the Account and Customer REST APIs. You can find the complete ...

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