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The OpenAPI specification aims at standardizing the representation of REST based systems in json and yaml formats. A short version of the petstore is below:

{
 "swagger": "2.0",
 "info": {},
 "host": "petstore.swagger.io",
 "basePath": "/v2",
  "tags": [],
  "schemes": [
 "http"
 ],
 "paths": {},
 "securityDefinitions": {},
 "definitions": {},
 "externalDocs": {
 "description": "Find out more about Swagger",
 "url": "http://swagger.io"
 }
}

Based on this document, client and server stubs can be generated in different programming languages/frameworks using the OpenAPI codegen project. Is there a computer science theory behind this ? To be more precise, I want to specifically know if there are theoretical concepts behind taking an input, (in this case a json/yaml document) and getting a source code representation in one or more programming languages that represents the initial input ?

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  • $\begingroup$ @DavidRicherby +1 for the wikipedia reference. It included the information I was looking for. I understand now that generative programming , (which falls under automatic programming), deals with automatic code generation. I also found some academic papers that give more insights into the theory and related research :) I can accept your answer if you move it to the appropriate place. $\endgroup$ – SyCode Jun 13 '18 at 16:38
  • $\begingroup$ OK. We generally discourage answers that are just a link to some other resource so, if somebody posts a proper answer that isn't just a link, please unaccept mine and give them the credit that I don't deserve. :-) $\endgroup$ – David Richerby Jun 13 '18 at 16:49
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I don't know anything about it but the field as a whole is called "automatic programming", which should give you pointers of where to look.

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  • $\begingroup$ If anyone has an answer that isn't just a link, please do post it! $\endgroup$ – David Richerby Jun 13 '18 at 16:50

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