asterisk/rest-api
David M. Lee 1c21b8575b This patch adds a RESTful HTTP interface to Asterisk.
The API itself is documented using Swagger, a lightweight mechanism for
documenting RESTful API's using JSON. This allows us to use swagger-ui
to provide executable documentation for the API, generate client
bindings in different languages, and generate a lot of the boilerplate
code for implementing the RESTful bindings. The API docs live in the
rest-api/ directory.

The RESTful bindings are generated from the Swagger API docs using a set
of Mustache templates.  The code generator is written in Python, and
uses Pystache. Pystache has no dependencies, and be installed easily
using pip. Code generation code lives in rest-api-templates/.

The generated code reduces a lot of boilerplate when it comes to
handling HTTP requests. It also helps us have greater consistency in the
REST API.

(closes issue ASTERISK-20891)
Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2376/

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README.txt

<!-- Written in -*- Markdown -*- -->

This directory contains the specification for the Asterisk RESTful
API. The API is documented using Swagger[1]. This is used to not only
generate executable documentation pages for the API, but also to
generate a lot of the boilerplate necessary for implementing the API
with Asterisk's HTTP server.

 [1]: http://swagger.wordnik.com/