Hello,
I have opened an issue [1] and mentioned on the Slack channel [2] to
make it easier for community members to voice opinions on this.
[1] https://github.com/apache/apisix/issues/9276
[2] https://the-asf.slack.com/archives/CUC5MN17A/p1681116184109279
- Navendu
On 16/02/23 2:14 pm, Nicolas Frankel wrote:
Hello,
Most API Gateways advertise themselves as API Lifecycle Management
products. In that regard, Apache APISIX is lacking. My use-case is quite
straightforward.
The company has front-end and back-end developers. With the help of the
business, they agree on an OpenAPI spec. Then, they go on developing their
part. As a frontend developer, I want to be able to develop independently
from the backend part. For this reason, a couple of mock servers have
popped up: you feed them with the OpenAPI spec, and they serve the data in
the example section of the spec.
Apache APISIX has two ways to mock data:
1. The mocking <https://apisix.apache.org/docs/apisix/plugins/mocking/>
plugin. It's unrelated to OpenAPI, you need to mock everything by hand
2. Import the spec
<https://apisix.apache.org/docs/dashboard/IMPORT_OPENAPI_USER_GUIDE/>
from the APISIX dashboard. You need additional extensions in the spec, it's
one shot (there's no continuous change management) and it doesn't mock
anything.
I'd like to propose a way for Apache APISIX to:
- Manage an OpenAPI spec
- By default, serve the example section in the spec
- Be able to replace the example by real upstream
- Dynamically mirror the changes in the spec file
Please let me know if you think it's a worthy feature.
Nicolas
