


The top level components of our specification are as follows, 1. Well, hope the above quick explanation helped us remove “OpenAPI” from our list of jargon words. In fact, until recently before the release of OpenAPI 3.0 where the official name OpenAPI specification was given, it was earlier called as Swagger specification. These are the tools we mostly use for the generation of documentation, client SDK’s and server stubs from the specification that are used with our code, hence the names OpenAPI and Swagger are interchangeably used. Once we have our specification ready, we have a lot of useful tools built around the specification like Swagger UI, Swagger Editor, Swagger Codegen, etc. The format or specification of how we should describe our endpoints is called the OpenAPI specification. Well it is not a versus scenario, they both compliment each other.
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It is kind of a document that others can look up to get an idea of what resources are available in our server and how to access them.

OpenAPI Specification is essentially a way or format to describe all your API endpoints along with their operations (i.e., GET, POST, PUT, etc) and all the parameters involved in the query, request/response payload, header, cookie, etc, of each endpoint. When properly defined, a consumer can understand and interact with the remote service with a minimal amount of implementation logic. The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) defines a standard, language-agnostic interface to RESTful APIs which allows both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the service without access to source code, documentation, or through network traffic inspection. OpenAPI documentation gives the definition as,
