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Speed-Review API Specifications

As the software application world moves from monolith architectures to microservices, we are also seeing a shift toward developing modular and reusable APIs. According to APIOps, reusable APIs are consumable APIs, which means they must be well-documented and compliant. The separation between the designers, builders, and consumers of an API grows larger and larger, making the API specification even more central to that API’s success.

The API spec is a contract. It is a promise that an API will function in a certain way.

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How to Use APIkit Router in Mule 4

The APIkit Router element allows you to define an API. It helps developers generate whole code from the API specification (RAML file) itself. But apart from generating flows from the API specification, it also helps in routing the incoming requests to specific flows of the API.

Steps to Use APIkit Router

1. Create an API specification (RAML). You can create an API specification from the Design Center or you can create it manually in any of the text editors. (The creating or editing API specification feature is also available in Anypoint Studio 7.x.) You can use the below RAML API specification for this demo.