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Re:Everything old is new again: Microservices by scarface74 on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @08:51AM (#17029370)
Few implementations add hypermedia support in the real world.

For one, Swagger is for humans not machines to consume. At it's core it is a way to standardize documentation that can be easily displayed to humans.

c# - https://github.com/Azure/autorest

Java - https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-parser/blob/master/RE...

And basically everything else.

https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen/blob/master/R...

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Re:Everything old is new again: Microservices by throwaway2016a on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @12:34PM (#17031244)
Those are code generators. The code they generate is for the computer. The spec is still an abstraction layer designed for humans.

I am not aware of any code generators that read the swagger file every single API call and use that as if it were the code.

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Re:Everything old is new again: Microservices by scarface74 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @03:54PM (#17042399)
How is that any different than a WSDL? A WSDL could also be said to be designed for humans -- it's just XML -- but there are code generators for it too.
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