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Modern REST API Development in Go

You're reading from   Modern REST API Development in Go Design performant, secure, and observable web APIs using Go's powerful standard library

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781836205371
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to APIs 2. Exploring REST APIs FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a REST Client 4. Designing Your REST API 5. Authentication and Authorization 6. Data Persistency 7. API Security 8. API Performance 9. Deploying Your API 10. Testing 11. Documenting with OpenAPI 12. Metrics, Logs, and Traces 13. Using GORM 14. Using the Echo Framework 15. Unlock Your Book’s Exclusive Benefits 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Adding OpenAPI documentation to your API

Because we already have most of our API defined, I think the right approach here is to generate an OpenAPI document for our code, so let’s do that.

We will incorporate the swaggo library annotations into our previous code, and then we will generate an OpenAPI document from it. So, let’s start with general details of the API. For that, we will add annotations to our main package with all the important information about the API, such as the title, the version, the description, and so on. So, let’s see what it looks like:

// @title Shopping List API
// @version 0.1
// @description An API for managing shopping lists
// @host my-shopping-lists.com/api
// @BasePath /
// @securityDefinitions.apikey BearerAuth
// @in header
// @name Authorization
// @description Type "Bearer" followed by a space and the JWT token
package main

At this point, I’m already providing a lot of information about the API,...

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