Swagger Codegen

Kiota is a client, plugin, and manifest generator for HTTP REST APIs described by OpenAPI. Available as a command-line tool and a Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension, Kiota enables developers to search for API descriptions, filter and select specific endpoints, and generate models and a chained method API surface in various programming languages. This approach eliminates the need to depend on different API clients for each API and allows for precise generation of the required API surface area. Additionally, Kiota facilitates participation in the Microsoft Copilot ecosystem by enabling the generation of API plugins. The VS Code extension enhances the Kiota experience with a rich user interface, supporting features such as searching for API descriptions, filtering endpoints, and generating API clients. Users can select desired endpoints and generate clients, plugins, or other outputs, with completion notifications and easy access to generated outputs within the workspace.

NSwag is a comprehensive Swagger/OpenAPI 2.0 and 3.0 toolchain for .NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, and TypeScript, written in C#. It enables developers to generate OpenAPI specifications from existing API controllers and create client code from these specifications. NSwag combines functionalities similar to Swashbuckle (for OpenAPI/Swagger generation) and AutoRest (for client generation) into a single toolchain, eliminating the need for both. Key features include the ability to generate Swagger 2.0 and OpenAPI 3.0 specifications from C# ASP.NET (Core) controllers, serve these specifications via ASP.NET (Core) middleware with integrated Swagger UI or ReDoc, and generate C# or TypeScript clients/proxies from the specifications. NSwag offers multiple usage methods, including a user-friendly Windows GUI (NSwagStudio), command-line interfaces compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux, and integration into C# code via NuGet packages.