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workshop

Restlet experience

Boston, 11/2/2016

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Jérôme LOUVELAbout Jérôme LOUVEL

• Founder, CTO & VP of Products at Restlet

• Restlet Framework creator,first REST framework for Java (2004)

• Contributor to “RESTful Web Services” (O’Reilly, 2007)

• Member of JAX-RS 1.0 expert group (2007 - 2009)

• Co-author of “Restlet in Action” (Manning, 2012)

• InfoQ editor covering Web APIs (since 2014)

• Board member of OAI

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• Increasing API Use Cases

• Continuous API Delivery

• API Team Collaboration

Why API Description Formats?

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API Use Cases

API centricsoftware

Mobile app backend

IoTbackend

Micro service

Web app backend

Social botbackend

Partner API

gateway

PublicAPI

gateway

Automatedworkflow

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Continuous API Delivery

DEV

API centricsoftware

QA

OPS

BIZ

Create

TestEngage

Run

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1 | Code-first & Provider driven

Providerteam

Consumer teams

API

Impl

SDK

ClientA

SDK

ClientB

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2 | Contract-first & Provider driven

Providerteam

Consumerteams

Impl

SDK

ClientA

SDK

ClientB

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1Mock

2

API

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3 | Collaborative Contract-first

Providerteam

Consumer teams

Impl

SDK

ClientA

SDK

ClientB

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1Mock

2

API

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4 | Contract-first & Consumer Driven

Providerteam

Consumerteams

Impl

SDK

ClientA

SDK

ClientB

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1Mock

2

APIMockAPI

Impl

MockAPI

Impl

ServicesData

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5 | Contract-first & Consumer Owned

Providerteam

Consumer teams

Impl

SDK

ClientA

SDK

ClientB

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1Mock

2

APIMockAPI

Impl

MockAPI

Impl

Data Services

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API Team Collaboration

Owner

Developer

Writer

Tester Operator

APITeam

Manager

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• Restlet Studio → Collaborative & visual API design

• DHC → Collaborative & automated API testing

• APISpark → Data API creation & operations

Restlet Tools

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Restlet Studio - Collaborative & visual API design

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DHC - Collaborative & automated API testing

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APISpark - Data API creation & operations

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Restlet & OAS

• Visually edit OAS definitions→ easier learning curve→ boost productivity

• Import existing OAS definitions→ older versions and alternative formats→ generates API test scenarios

• Export OAS definitions→ share the API description with other tools

• Display OAS as interactive doc→ embed Swagger UI in API portal

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Thanks!