Analysis of REST API Implementation

Authors

  • Chaitanya Mukund Kulkarni  Department of Computer Engineering, Pune Institute of Technology, Pune, Maharashtra, India
  • Prof. M. S. Takalikar  Department of Computer Engineering, Pune Institute of Technology, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Keywords:

Restful Web Services, Web Interfaces, Web Services, OpenApi specification, swagger documentation

Abstract

RESTful web services provide an architectural style for developing the web services and way of consuming those apis for client. The apis, developed using http protocol may not be following all the REST constraints. The motivation of this paper is to design the method for api validation. Method checks if the implementation is developed as per the requirements of the specification document of the respective api. This paper also studies the challenges in analysis of the REST api and validation of the api implementation. This mechanism will consider OpenApi Specification document of the RESTful web api implementation.

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2018-06-30

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Volume 3, Issue 5, May-June-2018

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Chaitanya Mukund Kulkarni, Prof. M. S. Takalikar, " Analysis of REST API Implementation, IInternational Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology(IJSRCSEIT), ISSN : 2456-3307, Volume 3, Issue 5, pp.108-113, May-June-2018.