How to auto-generate documentation for your Spring MVC based REST APIs using Springfox and Swagger

1. Let your REST API talk
Nikolay Petkov
Service Center Manager @Proxiad

2. Why REST?
● HTTP powers the net for decades
● Every major programing language has first
class support for HTTP, both server and client
side
● Browsers (understandably) and JavaScript
speak HTTP fluently
● HTTP is features rich protocol, why use only
the “body of the POST request” ;-)

3. The HTTP armory

4. HTTP Methods

5. Status Codes