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Generating connectors from Open API spec

dferguson — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 03:20:49 GMT

Has anyone found or heard of existing tooling we can use to generate a custom connector from an Open API or similar specification?

Re: Generating connectors from Open API spec

david-kreitter_ — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 03:32:06 GMT

Hmmm yeah I wonder if it would be possible for Workato to auto-generate a custom connector if provided the YAML or JSON for a given Open API. That would be pretty rad!

Re: Generating connectors from Open API spec

brock-richard — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 03:40:36 GMT

Chandra V, do you know if this is possible?

Re: Generating connectors from Open API spec

chandra — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:52:15 GMT

Hi Brock,

Yes it should be possible. we have plans to support Open API specification.

The request is on Product backlog, but not sure about ETA.

Re: Generating connectors from Open API spec

szaretsky — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 23:07:45 GMT

Dan, Brock, we did some research regarding this.

Are there connectors with existing OpenAPI spec that first come on your mind? Is there something specific you want to get from this automatic construction?

That would be great if you share your ideas. Thank you

Re: Generating connectors from Open API spec

dferguson — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 23:20:40 GMT

We are an OEM customer and we are building several custom connectors for our APIs. We have OpenAPI specs for some of our services already and a feature like this could save us a ton of time in connector development.

Re: Generating connectors from Open API spec

adrian-chong — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 06:47:28 GMT

I imagine if this existed, Workato would be going through and converting entire APIs, rather than the subsets that exist today.

But good question, and really interested to see what resulting functionality comes from Chandra V 's comment.