OpenAPI / Swagger / ReDoc#
Interactive API browser#
The UCS@school Kelvin REST API offers two web interfaces to explore the API graphically:
The Swagger UI at
https://<fqdn>/ucsschool/kelvin/v1/docs
The ReDoc UI at
https://<fqdn>/ucsschool/kelvin/v1/redoc
Both UIs are created in the browser by JavaScript code using the OpenAPI specification generated by the UCS@school Kelvin REST API server.
The OpenAPI specification can be downloaded at: https://<fqdn>/ucsschool/kelvin/v1/openapi.json
.
The Swagger UI allows direct interaction (reading, creating users etc.) with the API server.
To use it, a token must first be retrieved by clicking the Authorize
button in the top right corner.
In the pop-up, the username must be of a user in the group ucsschool-kelvin-rest-api-admins
.
The user Administrator
is added to this group by default.
After supplying the password and clicking the Authorize
button the pop-up can be closed.
Then methods of resources can be used.
After opening on one, a click on Try it out
on the right side will allow to Execute
the request.
Generating client code from OpenAPI schema#
Source code for UCS@school Kelvin REST API clients can be auto-generated by a number of tools.
Popular open source tools that can generate source code from the servers openapi.json
for over 50 programming languages are:
OpenAPI Generator: OpenAPITools/openapi-generator
Swagger Codegen: swagger-api/swagger-codegen