Swagger for documenting your Spring Boot REST Api

 

What Is Swagger?

Swagger is a set of open-source tools built around the OpenAPI Specification that can help you design, build, document and consume REST APIs.

Swagger  is mostly used as an open source project for describing and documenting RESTful APIs.  Swagger-UI an another tool which provides the capability of displaying the REST Api documentation in the browser.  Besides rendering documentation, Swagger UI allows other API developers or consumers to interact with the API’s resources without having any of the implementation logic in place.

The more details can be found through following documentations.

https://swagger.io/docs/ 

http://springfox.github.io/springfox/docs/current/

 

Springfox for Swagger

The Swagger 2 specification, which is known as OpenAPI specification has several implementations. Currently, Springfox that has replaced Swagger-SpringMVC (Swagger 1.2 and older) is popular for Spring Boot applications.