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Overview

The primary goal of this project is to make it easy to document RESTful services by combining content that’s been hand-written using Asciidoctor with auto-generated examples produced with the Spring MVC Test framework. The result is intended to be an easy-to-read user guide, akin to GitHub’s API documentation for example, rather than the fully automated, dense API documentation produced by tools like Swagger.

For a broader introduction see the Documenting RESTful APIs presentation. Both the slides and a video recording are available.

Learning more

To learn more about Spring REST Docs, please consult the reference documentation.

Building from source

You will need Java 17 or later to build Spring REST Docs. It is built using Gradle:

./gradlew build

Contributing

Contributors to this project agree to uphold its code of conduct.

There are several that you can contribute to Spring REST Docs:

Open a pull request. Please see the contributor guidelines for details
Ask and answer questions on Stack Overflow using the spring-restdocs tag
Chat with fellow users on Gitter

Third-party extensions

Name	Description
restdocs-wiremock	Auto-generate WireMock stubs as part of documenting your RESTful API
restdocsext-jersey	Enables Spring REST Docs to be used with Jersey’s test framework
spring-auto-restdocs	Uses introspection and Javadoc to automatically document request and response parameters
restdocs-api-spec	A Spring REST Docs extension that adds API specification support. It currently supports OpenAPI 2 and OpenAPI 3

Licence

Spring REST Docs is open source software released under the Apache 2.0 license.