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Intelligence: Security warnings, API repository search, workspaces, reporting, API governance; Postman v11 was released in May 2024. The update includes AI-powered features to help developers with API test generation, documentation, debugging, and data visualization. [16] V11 also enables more users to share API collections with external partners.
The tools listed here support emulating [1] or simulating APIs and software systems. They are also called [2] API mocking tools, service virtualization tools, over the wire test doubles and tools for stubbing and mocking HTTP(S) and other protocols. [1] They enable component testing in isolation. [3]
Socrata exposes an OData API. Microsoft Azure exposes an OData API. Oracle Analytics Cloud can connect to an OData API; SAP NetWeaver Gateway [37] provides OData access to SAP Business Suite and SAP Business Warehouse. IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale REST data service can be accessed by any HTTP client using OData. [38]
For instance, documentation for an API function could note that its parameters cannot be null, that the function itself is not thread safe. [56] Because API documentation tends to be comprehensive, it is a challenge for writers to keep the documentation updated and for users to read it carefully, potentially yielding bugs. [48]
API description languages are sometimes called interface description languages (IDLs). The structured description might be used to generate documentation for human programmers; such documentation may be easier to read than free-form documentation, since all documentation generated by the same tool follows the same formatting conventions ...
An open API (often referred to as a public API) is a publicly available application programming interface that provides developers with programmatic access to a (possibly proprietary) software application or web service. [1] Open APIs are APIs that are published on the internet and are free to access by consumers. [2]
GraphQL is a data query and manipulation language for APIs that allows a client to specify what data it needs ("declarative data fetching"). A GraphQL server can fetch data from separate sources for a single client query and present the results in a unified graph. [2] It is not tied to any specific database or storage engine.
An example of a popular web API is the Astronomy Picture of the Day API operated by the American space agency NASA. It is a server-side API used to retrieve photographs of space or other images of interest to astronomers, and metadata about the images. According to the API documentation, [15] the API has one endpoint: