Using AutoRest for PowerShell to generate PowerShell Modules

12th of April, 2019 / / No Comments

Recently the Beta of the AutoRest for PowerShell Generator has been made available. At the recent Microsoft MVP Summit in Seattle Garrett Serack gave those that were interested a 1 hr corridor session on getting started with AutoRest for PowerShell.

AutoRest is a tool that generates client libraries for accessing RESTful web services. Microsoft are moving towards using AutoRest to generate SDK’s for the API’s in the standard languages they provide SDK’s for. In addition the AutoRest for PowerShell generator aims to automate the generation of PowerShell Modules for Azure API’s.… [Keep reading] “Using AutoRest for PowerShell to generate PowerShell Modules”

Creating Service Contract with AutoRest, Swagger and HAL

26th of October, 2015 / / 10 Comments

According to Richardson Maturity Model, REST API level 3 should provide hypermedia within responses as metadata, so that users can easily navigate to other resources. This is particularly important if Microservices architecture (MSA) is considered for your service or application. Because MSA is a collection of small REST API services, each API server should provide complete set of documents or manuals for others to consume it properly. In order to provide document automation, Swagger is one of the best choices, and HAL, in order to provide hypermedia within the response, is also yet another option.… [Keep reading] “Creating Service Contract with AutoRest, Swagger and HAL”