api-design-reviewer

To validate an OpenAPI specification against REST conventions, you can automate the review process to analyze your API design documents for adherence to naming conventions and industry best practices. This ensures your API maintains high quality and usability.

Detecting breaking changes between API versions is handled by automated review tools that compare API specifications. This process identifies modifications that could disrupt existing clients, ensuring your new API version maintains backward compatibility before release.

Scoring API design quality automatically involves processing your OpenAPI or Swagger definitions through a validation tool. It provides a comprehensive quality assessment with detailed recommendations, checking for errors, inconsistencies, and potential issues.

You can use a JSON endpoint definition for API linting, as the process handles both JSON and raw endpoint definitions. A full OpenAPI or Swagger specification is also supported to ensure adherence to REST principles and proper naming conventions.

The API review process supports both Swagger and OpenAPI specifications as input. It validates these documents to identify linting issues, detect breaking changes, and provide a comprehensive quality assessment for your API design.

Reviewing your API design before releasing a new version is necessary to automatically check for errors, inconsistencies, and potential issues. Ensuring adherence to REST principles and proper naming conventions maintains high quality and usability for developers.