The primary goal of this project is to make it easy to document RESTful services by combining content that's been hand-written using Asciidoctor with auto-generated examples produced with the Spring MVC Test framework. The result is intended to be an easy-to-read user guide, akin to GitHub's API documentation for example, rather than the fully automated, dense API documentation produced by tools like Swagger.
For a broader introduction see the Documenting RESTful APIs presentation. Both the slides and a video recording are available.
To learn more about Spring REST Docs, please consult the reference documentation.
You will need Java 8 or later to build Spring REST Docs. It is built using Gradle:
./gradlew build
Contributors to this project agree to uphold its code of conduct.
There are several that you can contribute to Spring REST Docs:
- Open a pull request. Please see the contributor guidelines for details.
- Ask and answer questions on Stack Overflow using the
spring-restdocstag. - Chat with fellow users on Gitter.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| restdocs-wiremock | Auto-generate WireMock stubs as part of documenting your RESTful API |
| restdocsext-jersey | Enables Spring REST Docs to be used with Jersey's test framework |
| spring-auto-restdocs | Uses introspection and Javadoc to automatically document request and response parameters |
| restdocs-api-spec | A Spring REST Docs extension that adds API specification support. It currently supports OpenAPI 2 and OpenAPI 3 |
Spring REST Docs is open source software released under the Apache 2.0 license.