[openstack-dev] [docs] [api] Why WADL when you can Swagger

Monty Taylor mordred at inaugust.com
Sat Feb 13 00:57:19 UTC 2016


On 02/12/2016 03:45 PM, Anne Gentle wrote:
> Hi all,
> I wanted to give an update on the efforts to provide improved
> application developer information on developer.openstack.org
> <http://developer.openstack.org>. Wrangling this much valuable
> information and gathering it in a way that helps people is no simple
> matter. So. We move forward one step at a time.

It's the only way we can move around here. :)

> What's new?
> ----------------
> This week, with every build of the api-site, we are now running
> fairy-slipper to migrate from WADL to Swagger for API reference
> information. Those migrated Swagger files are then copied to
> developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger
> <http://developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger>.
>
> We know that not all files migrate smoothly. We'd love to get teams
> looking at these migrated files. Thank you to those of you already
> submitting fixes!
>
> In addition, the infra team is reviewing a spec now so that we can serve
> API reference information from the developer.openstack.org
> <http://developer.openstack.org> site:
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/276484/
>
> Why are we doing all this?
> ----------------------------------
> The overall vision is still intact in the original specifications
> [1][2], however we need to do a lot of web design and front end work to
> get where we want to be.
>
> What can I do?
> --------------------
> Check out these Swagger files.
> http://developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger/blockstorage-v1-swagger.json
> http://developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger/blockstorage-v2-swagger.json
> http://developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger/clustering-v1-swagger.json
> http://developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger/compute-v2.1-swagger.json
> http://developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger/data-processing-v1.1-swagger.json
> http://developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger/database-v1-swagger.json
> http://developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger/identity-admin-v2-swagger.json
> http://developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger/identity-extensions-v2-swagger.json
> http://developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger/identity-extensions-v3-swagger.json
> http://developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger/identity-v2-swagger.json
> http://developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger/identity-v3-swagger.json
> http://developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger/image-v1-swagger.json
> http://developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger/networking-extensions-v2-swagger.json
> http://developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger/networking-v2-swagger.json
> http://developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger/objectstorage-v1-swagger.json
> http://developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger/orchestration-v1-swagger.json
> http://developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger/share-v1-swagger.json
> http://developer.openstack.org/draft/swagger/telemetry-v2-swagger.json
>
> If you see a problem in the original WADL, log it here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-api-site. If you see a problem with
> the migration tool, log it here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-doc-tools.
>
> When will the work be completed?
> --------------------------------------------
>
> I had hoped to have more to show by this point, but I await the infra
> team's review of the server spec above, and we continue to work on the
> bugs in the migration and output. Once the server spec work is complete,
> we can release the draft site.

K. I'll go review ...

> What if I have more questions?
> ------------------------------------------
> You can always hop onto #openstack-doc or #openstack-sdks to ask me or
> another API working group member for guidance.
>
> Last but not least, if you want to learn more about Swagger in the
> upstream contributors track at the Summit, vote for this session:
> https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/vote-for-speakers/presentation/7723

This is all super awesome Anne. Thanks for all the great work!




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