[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Forum Post: Re: A Standard Rest Api - Odata?

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Thanks for mentioning ODATA, I've not really looked into it previoiusly and it's worth a look as we are in the same position in respect of being ready to start building a REST API on top of our ERP solution. I've been more focused at looking at RAML and Swagger as potential products to be used for documenting any API, so would be interested in knowing if Progress are going to be doing anyhting in this area? Can see two possible directions of integration; 1 - Can a Openedge REST API (e.g. Webspeed web handler) be parsed and the maching Swagger or RAML generated ? 2 - Can we parse a Swagger or RAML definition and generate a Openedge handler stub, including matching prodataset definition etc. ? I'd also be interested in knowing if you are going to be using Openedge REST or Openedge Webspeed handlers for implementing your API's? The latter Webspeed route seems to be much lighter config wise with no downsides ?

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