REST API - ALPS User Interface (Swagger Interface)

Question

I am evaluating Spring Data REST at the moment and I really like it.

What I am missing is beautifully presented, interactive documentation, similar to the Swagger UI .

I know that Spring Data REST is not a static API and that there is a HAL Browser , but unfortunately the HAL browser does not show any document metadata about the corresponding URLs / GET / POST, etc.

Spring Data REST produces ALPS metadata (see here ).

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Why is this necessary?
Well, that would be very useful for frontend developers and improve performance from my point of view. In addition, each type of automatic generated documentation saves a lot of time.

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Shortly speaking:
Is there something like " Swagger Interface for ALPS / Hypermedia REST APIs "

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Additional Information:
I already found a similar question that describes the problem, but I was not sure that it could be re-reared, so I created a new one. Maybe, meanwhile, there are possible solutions.

Answer 1

Put this one in your addictions and smoke it:

<dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId> <artifactId>spring-data-rest-hal-browser</artifactId> </dependency> </dependencies> 

referenced by: / api / browser

I was just looking for the same thing today. ALPS is metadata, but SRD creates hal - all you need is something to navigate through the HAL data, and you're done.