NSwag is a toolchain for the .NET ecosystem designed to automate the generation of API documentation, server controllers, and typed client proxies from OpenAPI contracts. It functions as a contract-first API tool that enables the creation of server-side boilerplate and client libraries based on predefined specifications. The suite distinguishes itself through its ability to extract OpenAPI specifications from existing ASP.NET Core code via reflection and its capacity to generate type-safe TypeScript client proxies. It also provides an interactive documentation server that hosts and renders th
Swashbuckle.AspNetCore is an API specification tool and documentation generator for ASP.NET Core. It extracts metadata from source code and models to produce standardized OpenAPI specifications and interactive browser interfaces for exploring and testing web APIs. The project integrates a middleware component to serve these specifications and a Swagger UI for interactive API testing directly from a running application. It also provides a command-line exporter to extract specification files from application assemblies for use in CI/CD pipelines. The tool covers a wide range of capabilities in
TypeSpec is a language for defining cloud API shapes and generating OpenAPI, JSON Schema, and client/server code from a single source of truth. It functions as a protocol-agnostic API designer that models REST, gRPC, and other API protocols using a unified, extensible syntax, with a decorator-based metadata system for attaching metadata, validation rules, and lifecycle visibility to API models and operations. The compiler produces OpenAPI 3.0 specifications and other artifacts, and the tool supports declaring API versions and tracking changes to models, properties, and operations across releas
utoipa is a Rust API documentation tool used to generate machine-readable OpenAPI specifications. It functions as a specification generator and schema mapper that converts Rust structs and enums into compliant OpenAPI schemas. The project distinguishes itself by using procedural macros and traits to automate metadata extraction from code. It supports complex data modeling, including generics, polymorphism, and recursive type resolution, while synchronizing field renaming and tagging from serialization attributes. It also enables the composition of modular specifications, allowing multiple sma
NSwag is an OpenAPI toolchain for .NET that provides a suite of generators for converting OpenAPI specifications and JSON schemas into clients, server stubs, and structured documentation. It enables the creation of type-safe client libraries and data transfer objects, as well as the generation of OpenAPI specifications by analyzing .NET controllers.
The main features of ricosuter/nswag are: OpenAPI Toolchains, API Client Generators, Server Stub Generation, API Code Generators, API-First Development Toolsets, OpenAPI Specification Generators, Template-Based Code Generators, OpenAPI Specification Extraction.
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