The OpenAPI Specifications provide a formal standard for describing HTTP APIs.
This allows people to understand how an API works, how a sequence of APIs work together, generate client code, create tests, apply design standards, and much, much more.
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cache-control: public, max-age=60, s-maxage=43200, stale-while-revalidate=86400, stale-if-error=604800
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content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
link: ; rel="alternate"; title="JSON"; type="application/json"
link: OpenAPI Initiative – The OpenAPI Initiative provides an open source, technical community, within which industry participants may easily contribute to building a vendor-neutral, portable and an open specification for providing technical metadata for REST APIs – the “OpenAPI Specification” (OAS).
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