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Rest.li API Hub

API Hub is a web UI for browsing and searching a catalog of rest.li APIs.

Features:

• Explorable catalog of all Rest.li resources
• Lucene powered full text search across all resources and data schemas

• Detailed resource pages including all available RESTful methods

• Detailed data schema pages
• All resources and data schemas documentation is displayed and nicely formatted
• Generated example HTTP requests and responses

• Interactive Console for composing and sending requests to live REST resources

• Requests composed in console and be saved to a paste service (gist by default) and shared via a link

Install and Run

Requirements:

• Java 1.6+

Download latest stable build: http://rest.li/releases/apihub/restli-apihub-0.0.2.zip

Unzip the build, e.g.:

unzip restli-apihub-0.0.2.zip

Start the application:

Linux/OSX:
cd restli-apihub-0.0.2/bin
./restli-apihub

Windows:
cd restli-apihub-0.0.2\bin
restli-apihub.bat

In your browser, hit http://localhost:9000/apihub

Configuration

Edit the data loader strategy configuration properties in conf/application.conf.

• Comment out the test data loader:

   #dataLoadStrategy=resource
   #filesystemCacheDir=int-test-dataset.json

• Uncomment the crawling loader, modify the resourceUrls list to include URLs to all your rest.li resources.

   dataLoadStrategy=crawlerFilesystemCached
   filesystemCacheDir=/tmp/apihub
   resourceUrls=[                                                                                                                                                                    
     "http://localhost:1338/fortunes",
     "http://localhost:1338/greetings"
   ]

Building From Source

Requirements:

• SBT - 0.13.0+
• Play - 2.2.1+

How to run:

• play run
• In your browser, hit http://localhost:9000/apihub

How to debug:

• play debug run
• Connect IDE debugger to port 9999