Generating API documentation for both external and internal users

Dariusz Suchojad

February 12, 2020

A recurring need in larger integration projects is generation of API documentation for users belonging to different, yet related, target groups. Read on to learn how to generate Zato-based API specifications for more than one group from a single source of information.

Topics: Documentation, OpenAPI

Accessing cache APIs from command line

Dariusz Suchojad

February 5, 2020

In addition to a GUI, Python and REST APIs, it is now possible to access your Zato caches from command line. Learn from this article how to quickly check, set and delete keys in this way - particularly useful for remote SSH connections to Zato environments.

Topics: Cache

Auto-generating API specifications as OpenAPI, WSDL and Sphinx

Dariusz Suchojad

December 3, 2019

This article presents a workflow for auto-generation of API specifications for your Zato services - if you need to share your APIs with partners, external or internal, this is how it can be done.

Topics: APISpec

Configuring Zato for high-performance Oracle Database connections

Dariusz Suchojad

November 6, 2019

If you need to configure Zato for Oracle DB connections and you want to ensure the highest performance possible, this is the post which goes through the process step-by-step. Read on for details.

Topics: Oracle

Publish/subscribe, Zato services and asynchronous API integrations

Dariusz Suchojad

November 4, 2019

This article introduces features built into Zato that let one take advantage of publish/subscribe topics and message queues in communication between Zato services, API clients and backend systems.

Topics: Publish Subscribe

Bash completion in Zato commands

Dariusz Suchojad

October 31, 2019

This is a quick tip on how to quickly and easily enable Bash completion for Zato commands - each time you press Tab when typing a Zato command, its arguments and parameters will be auto-completed.

Topics: Bash

Windows commands and PowerShell scripts as API microservices

Dariusz Suchojad

July 23, 2019

This post goes through the steps of exposing Windows commans and PowerShell scripts as remote Zato API services that can be invoked by REST clients.

Topics: Windows, PowerShell

Integrating with Microsoft SQL Server via stored procedures

Dariusz Suchojad

July 1, 2019

This article will show you how to invoke MS SQL stored procedures from Zato services - a feature new in the just released version 3.1 of the Python-based integration platform.

Topics: MS SQL

Zato 3.1 Released - Open-Source Python-based API Integrations and Backend Application Server

Dariusz Suchojad

June 18, 2019

The newest version of Zato, the open-source Python-based enterprise API integrations platform and backend application server, is out with a lot of interesting features, changes and additions

Topics: Release

Broadcasting messages to WebSocket API clients

Dariusz Suchojad

June 12, 2019

Invoking individual WebSocket connections has been supported since Zato 3.0 and Zato 3.1 adds new functionality on top of it - message broadcasting - which lets one notify all the clients connected to a particular channel. Here is how to use it.

Topics: WebSockets