For teams that generate OpenAPI from their codebase, there’s a tough choice between maintaining rich and extensive content such as Markdown descriptions and examples in codebase annotations, or in making those changes to the generated file – and then losing them when the code changes and the file is regenerated. The new OpenAPI Overlay Specification defines a format for storing updates to an OpenAPI document, and there’s a new generation of tools to make it easy to do, so let’s take a look. Continue reading
09 Jan
2025