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I love structured repositories of knowledge and documentation like this because it opens a lot of doors for automating some broader software engineering talent.
by gravypod 6y ago
I love structured repositories of knowledge and documentation like this because it opens a lot of doors for automating some broader software engineering talent.
This could be a really cool opportunity to programatically find common subsets of fields/operations that are sent together in many APIs and see if there's a way to build libraries and tooling across a bunch of languages to handle operations on those fields.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoOpenAPI?
- Meic 6y agoI haven't heard of anyone reverse engineering common schemas / parameters from existing APIs (I doubt the commonalities are really there) but there are projects like this one [0] which express schema.org types as JSON Schema objects suitable for use in OpenAPI. [0] https://github.com/tandfgroup/schema-oas https://github.com/tandfgroup/schema-oas
- disposedtrolley 6y agoThat's awesome! One more step towards the semantic web.