API Validation Tool

A node based API interceptor that can be used to validate API specification for an existing API. This interceptor should be deployed as proxy to the target API.

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Pre-requisites

For development, you will only need Node.js and a node global package or Yarn, installed in your environment.

Node

• Node installation on Windows

  Visit official Node.js website and download the installer. Also, be sure to have git available in your PATH, npm might need it (You can find git here).

• Node installation on Ubuntu

  You can install nodejs and npm easily with apt install, by running the following commands.

  $ sudo apt install nodejs
  $ sudo apt install npm
  

• Other Operating Systems

  You can find more information about the installation on the official Node.js website and the official NPM website.

If the installation was successful, you should be able to run the following command.

$ node --version
v10.15.2

$ npm --version
6.4.1

If you need to update npm, you can update it using npm! After running the following command, just open again the command line and execute following command.

$ npm install npm -g

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Clone and setup

$ git clone https://github.com/nutanix/api-guidelines-validator.git
$ cd api-guidelines-validator
$ npm install

Configure app locally

Create .env then add below environment variables:

• PORT service port number;
• NODE_ENV should be either production or development;
• TARGET base URL of target API;
• DOC_TARGET relative URL to openapi or swagger doc .yaml.

Running the project

$ npm start

References

To understand more information about the project working principles, please refer to https://medium.com/@santanu_kumar/a-way-to-validate-and-enforce-guidelines-for-an-api-design-3517d88b7079