An overview of the new Inflector project by Tony Tam (@fehguy).

1. Iterative Development
with Swagger on the JDK
Tony Tam
@fehguy

2. Swagger Codegen
• Creation of Clients, Servers from Swagger
Spec
– 5 servers
• Java, Scala, PHP, node.js
– 19 clients
• Android, Scala, C#, Java, Objective-C, Perl, PHP,
Python, QT-CPP, Retrofit, Ruby, HTML, Swift,
Tizen, Typescript Angular
– Nearly unlimited workflow integration
possibilities

3. Workflow-Specific Configuration
• Customized class + templates
Server
Docker Image
ObjC Client
Java Client
Re-generation with Changes
APM integration with Newrelic
Ops integration with DataDog
Configured name, versions
Push to docker repo via Jenkins build
Podfile
Push to github repo on Jenkins Build
Artifact
Push to Maven Repo on Jenkins Build

4. Workflow-Specific Configuration
• Independent Iterations from single
definition
Design
+
Collaborate
Generate
Implement
Client
Implement
Logic
Iterate
Iterate
Deploy
Deploy

5. So What’s Broken?
• Nothing really! But…
– Source Code collisions can be avoided
– What’s the source of truth?
– How do non-engineers improve
documentation?
• Not to nitpick but…

6. So What’s Broken?

7. Specification-Driven Development
• The Swagger Specification should be the
source of truth
– No round-trips to/from codegen
– No out-of-date server based on code changes

8. Swagger-Inflector
• A new Friction Reducer
• Programmatic endpoint generation
• Your new Plumber

9. How it Works
• Write your Specification
• Inflector wires your spec to the server
• Endpoints have automatic sample data
• Implementation is simply writing
controllers
• Based on JAX-RS 2.0, Jersey 2.6

10. Inflector Workflow
Design
+
Collaborate
Generate
Implement
Client
Implement
Logic
Iterate
Iterate
Deploy
Deploy

11. Focus on Business Logic!
inflector.yaml
swagger.yaml

12. Iterative Development!
• Unimplemented methods return mock data

13. Complex Schemas

14. Stop Plumbing!
Remove
Redundant
Logic

15. State of the Project
• Preview available!
– https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-
inflector
• Plenty to do!
• Will become a fully supported part of
Swagger
• More Samples soon