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The OpenAPI Specification, previously known as the Swagger Specification, is a specification for a machine-readable interface definition language for describing, producing, consuming and visualizing web services. [1]
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]
On 1 January 2016, the Swagger specification was renamed to OpenAPI Specification, and was moved to a new software repository on GitHub. [4] While the specification itself was not changed, this renaming signified the split between the API description format and the open-source tooling.
OpenAPI may refer to: Konica Minolta OpenAPI, an API and SDK from the MFP manufacturer Konica Minolta; Open API, a set of web technologies for inter-website communication; OpenAPI Specification, a specification and complete framework implementation (formerly named Swagger) for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services
There are two previous major description languages: WSDL 2.0 (Web Services Description Language) and WADL (Web Application Description Language). Neither is widely adopted in the industry for describing RESTful APIs, citing poor human readability of both and WADL being actually unable to fully describe a RESTful API.
A collection of tools that API providers use to define APIs, for instance using the OpenAPI or RAML specifications, generate API documentation, govern API usage through access and usage policies for APIs, test and debug the execution of API, including security testing and automated generation of tests and test suites, deploy APIs into production, staging, and quality assurance environments ...
OpenAPI Specification: a standard for Web APIs, used by Swagger and other technologies. Open Service Interface Definitions; Protocol Buffers: Google's IDL; RESTful Service Description Language (RSDL) Smithy: An AWS-invented protocol-agnostic interface definition language. Specification Language for Internet Communications Engine (Ice: Slice)
The term "endpoint interface" is more specific about "how to implement the endpoint", for example by an OpenAPI specification or by WSDL specification. Typical endpoints can be expressed by URI Templates. In Open API terms the endpoints are resources that the API exposes. The old (2004) term "end point" received also a glossary definition: [2]