Documenting RESTful APIs with Spring REST Docs
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RESTful APIs are eating the world, yet all too often the documentation can cause indigestion for the APIs' developers and their users. Developers have to deal with annotation overload, repetition, and an unpleasant writing environment. Users are then left with documentation that's inaccurate and difficult to use. It doesn't have to be this way.
This talk will introduce Spring REST Docs and its test-driven approach to RESTful API documentation. We'll look at how it combines the power of Asciidoctor and your integration tests to produce documentation that's accurate and easy-to-read, while keeping your code DRY and free from annotation overload. We'll look at features that are new in Spring REST Docs, focusing on support for documenting APIs that have been implemented using Spring Framework 5's WebFlux.
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Jenn Strater
Jenn is an experienced software engineer with a passion for developing and designing applications using new and innovative technologies. She spent the 2016-2017 academic year as a Fulbright Scholar taking graduate level classes and focusing on a research project involving static analysis for the Groovy programming language before joining Zenjob as a senior engineer in June 2017. Her greatest strength is building RESTful APIs, but she has also worked on small teams where she has had roles involving DevOps, NoSQL data stores, front-end, production support, and mobile work.