How to Create API Documentation With Akana Documenting your API product is easy with Akana. The following short video shows you how to document an API within the Akana API management platform. For any API product created within Akana, the functional documentation is generated automatically in OAS ...
Why Document APIs? A few years ago, API documentation was not something that developers gave much attention to when launching a code. However, it has become one of the critical elements that determine the success of your API in the modern marketplace. Here is why documenting APIs has become...
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GraphQLis an open-source query language and server-side runtime that specifies how clients should interact with APIs.2GraphQL allows users to make API requests with just a few lines, rather than having to access complex endpoints with many parameters. This capability can make it easier to gene...
API consumer reads documentation, they are doing so for meaningful understanding. It shocks most people, then, when they go to read an API documentation document only to find it points them to technical terminology nested in custom formats or proprietary systems. This is not functional ...
Why API design matters Good API design is critical for successful API use.Software architects spend considerable time reviewingall the possible applications of an API and the most logical way for it to be used. Thedata structuresand parameter values are of particular importance, as they must match...
The goal is always to establish an agreement or contract through which different pieces of code can exchange data with each other. A Web API has the same goals. But rather than using the mechanisms in the programming language to enable the communication, we use (sometimes built-in) libraries...
What is minimal API? If you've developed a .NET web API, you've used an approach that uses controllers. The idea is to have a controller class method, which represents various HTTP verbs, perform an operation to complete a specific task. For example,GetProducts()would return products by ...
API Gateway (APIG) is your cloud native gateway service. With APIG, you can build, manage, and deploy APIs at any scale to package your capabilities. With just a few clic
Document Translation is a cloud-based machine translation feature of the Azure AI Translator service. You can translate multiple and complex documents across all supported languages and dialects while preserving original document structure and data format. The Document translation API supports two ...