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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/ git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@386232 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3
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This directory contains templates and template processing code for generating
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HTTP bindings for the RESTful API's.
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The RESTful API's are declared using [Swagger][swagger]. While Swagger provides
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a [code generating toolkit][swagger-codegen], it requires Java to run, which
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would be an unusual dependency to require for Asterisk developers.
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This code generator is similar, but written in Python. Templates are processed
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by using [pystache][pystache], which is a fairly simply Python implementation of
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[mustache][mustache].
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[swagger]: https://github.com/wordnik/swagger-core/wiki
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[swagger-codegen]: https://github.com/wordnik/swagger-codegen
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[pystache]: https://github.com/defunkt/pystache
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[mustache]: http://mustache.github.io/
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