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OpenAPI Bot: A Chatbot to Help You Understand REST APIs

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Hamza Ed-Douibi,

Gwendal Daniel,

Jordi CabotAuthors Info & Claims

Web Engineering: 20th International Conference, ICWE 2020, Helsinki, Finland, June 9–12, 2020, Proceedings

Pages 538 - 542

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50578-3_40

Published: 09 June 2020 Publication History

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REST APIs are an essential building block in many Web applications. The lack of a standard machine-readable format to describe these REST APIs triggered the creation of several specification languages to formally define REST APIs, with the OpenAPI specification currently taking the lead. OpenAPI definitions are consumed by a growing ecosystem of tools aimed at automating tasks such as generating server/client SDKs and API documentations. However, current OpenAPI documentation tools mostly provide simple descriptive Web pages enumerating all the API operations and corresponding parameters, but do not offer interactive capabilities to help navigate the API and ask relevant information. Therefore, learning how to use an API and how its different parts are interrelated still requires a considerable time investment. To overcome this situation we present our OpenAPI Bot, a chatbot able to read an OpenAPI definition for you and answer the questions you may have about it.

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Web Engineering: 20th International Conference, ICWE 2020, Helsinki, Finland, June 9–12, 2020, Proceedings

Jun 2020

573 pages

ISBN:978-3-030-50577-6

DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-50578-3

Authors:
Maria Bielikova,
Cesare Pautasso,
Tommi Mikkonen,
Oussama Beroual,
Francis Guérin,
Sylvain Hallé,
Markku Laine,
Ai Nakajima,
Niraj Dayama,
Antti Oulasvirta,
Xavier Chamberland-Thibeault,
Sylvain Hallé,
JiHwan Yeo,
Jae-Hyeon Rim,
ChangHyun Shin,
Soo-Mook Moon,
Malith Jayasinghe,
Jayathma Chathurangani,
Gayal Kuruppu,
Pasindu Tennage,
Srinath Perera,
Verena Eileen Schlott,
Ege Korkan,
Sebastian Kaebisch,
Sebastian Steinhorst,
Brecht Van de Vyvere,
Pieter Colpaert,
Ruben Verborgh,
Lubin Liu,
Tong Liu,
Xinglang Wang,
Tao Xiao,
Wei Fang,
HongYue Chen,
Septian Gilang Permana Putra,
Bikash Joshi,
Judith Redi,
Alessandro Bozzon,
Michael Färber,
Benjamin Scheer,
Frederic Bartscherer,
Maxim Bakaev,
Maximilian Speicher,
Sebastian Heil,
Martin Gaedke,
Junxia Guo,
Qiyun Cao,
Rilian Zhao,
Zheng Li,
Mahda Noura,
Sebastian Heil,
Martin Gaedke,
Changjian Wang,
Ying Sha,
Ruilian Zhao,
Chen Chen,
Weiwei Wang,
Junxia Guo,
Piero Fraternali,
Sergio Luis Herrera Gonzalez,
Mohammad Manan Tariq,
Silvio Pavanetto,
Marco Brambilla,
Michal Hucko,
Robert Moro,
Maria Bielikova,
Claus Hoffmann,
Maria-Esther Vidal,
Maksymilian Marcinowski,
Agnieszka Ławrynowicz,
Harm Delva,
Julián Andrés Rojas,
Pieter-Jan Vandenberghe,
Pieter Colpaert,
Ruben Verborgh,
Julián Andrés Rojas,
Dylan Van Assche,
Harm Delva,
Pieter Colpaert,
Ruben Verborgh,
Douglas Rolim,
Jorge Silva,
Thais Batista,
Everton Cavalcante,
Zeng Lingyu,
Wu Bin,
Wang Bai,
Maria Mihaela Truşcǎ,
Daan Wassenberg,
Flavius Frasincar,
Rommert Dekker,
Sihang Qiu,
Ujwal Gadiraju,
Alessandro Bozzon,
André Langer,
Dang Vu Nguyen Hai,
Martin Gaedke,
César González-Mora,
Cristina Barros,
Irene Garrigós,
Jose Zubcoff,
Elena Lloret,
Jose-Norberto Mazón,
Jin-woo Kwon,
Hyeon-Jae Lee,
Soo-Mook Moon,
Clay Palmeira da Silva,
Nizar Messai,
Yacine Sam,
Thomas Devogele,
Rodolfo Gonzalez,
Sergio Firmenich,
Alejandro Fernandez,
Gustavo Rossi,
Darío Velez,
Erkki Kaila,
Henri Kajasilta,
Riccardo Tommasini,
Emanuele Della Valle,
Marco Balduini,
Sherif Sakr,
Jami Kousa,
Petri Ihantola,
Arto Hellas,
Matti Luukkainen,
Maksymilian Marcinowski,
Agnieszka Ławrynowicz,
César González-Mora,
Irene Garrigós,
Jose Zubcoff,
Javier Rojo,
Juan Hernandez,
Juan M. Murillo,
Benjamin Wollmer,
Wolfram Wingerath,
Norbert Ritter,
Steven Bucaille,
Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo,
Hamza Ed-Douibi,
Jordi Cabot,
Hamza Ed-Douibi,
Gwendal Daniel,
Jordi Cabot,
Ilan Kirsh,
Mike Joy,
César González-Mora,
Irene Garrigós,
Sven Casteleyn,
Sergio Firmenich,
Roy Meissner,
Laura Köbis,
César González-Mora,
Irene Garrigós,
Jose Zubcoff,
Pierre-Henri Paris,
Fayçal Hamdi,
Samira Si-Said Cherfi,
Editors:
Maria Bielikova
Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia
,
Tommi Mikkonen
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Cesare Pautasso
University of Lugano (USI), Lugano, Switzerland

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