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Designing API contracts

API Designer allows you to design and document APIs.

Information noteNote: API Designer is available in Qlik Cloud for customers with a Qlik Talend Cloud Premium or Qlik Talend Cloud Enterprise license. For more information, see Qlik Talend Cloud subscription options.
Information noteRestriction: Not available in the following Qlik Talend Cloud regions:
  • Europe (Paris)
  • Israel (Tel Aviv)
  • South America (São Paulo)

What API Designer does and for whom

API Designer helps with two important stages of an API project: design and documentation. With an easy learning curve, even non-developers can design an API and publish its documentation with API Designer.

Thanks to its graphical user interface, API Designer is also a favorite for people who want to create OAS/Swagger or RAML API definitions, without having to learn the complex syntax of these languages.

About APIs

APIs enable distributed software to communicate over a network by exchanging messages.

REST is a popular style of APIs used today thanks to its simplicity and natural tendency to work well on the web.

In REST (or REST-like) APIs, servers and client applications exchange HTTP messages such as GET, POST, and DELETE. REST APIs are commonly used as interfaces between mobile or web applications and their backends.

Increasingly, APIs are being considered valuable products themselves. They allow organizations to extend the reach of their data and services beyond internal boundaries. This enables them to tap into the ever growing ecosystem of third party developers and partners, from which enormous wealth and creativity can be found.

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