API Integrations in Python Blog - Page 6


Generating API documentation

2020-02-12

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. Read more

Auto-generating API specifications as OpenAPI, WSDL and Sphinx

2019-12-03

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. Read more

Publish/subscribe in Python

2019-11-04

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. Read more

Windows commands and PowerShell scripts as API microservices

2019-07-23

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

Integrating with Microsoft SQL Server via stored procedures

2019-07-01

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. Read more

MongoDB connections

2019-03-26

One of the newest additions in Zato 3.1 are MongoDB connections - learn in this article how to create and use them in your Python API services. Read more

HTTP Method and Accept headers

2019-03-18

Zato 3.1 includes new means to manage access to REST services based on input Method and Accept headers in HTTP requests - here is how they can be employed in practice. Read more

Two-factor authentication in Zato Dashboard

2019-02-25

This post provides steps needed to enable and make use of TOTP two-factor authentication in Zato Dashboard - the method is compatible with the most popular apps such as Google Authenticator, Authy or FreeOTP. Read more

Zato: A successful Python 3 migration story

2019-02-11

Now that Python 3 support is available as a preview for developers, this post summarizes the effort that went into making sure that Zato works smoothly using both Python 2.7 and 3.x. Read more

API caching in Zato. Part 1 - Introduction.

2017-12-18

One of many exciting features that the upcoming Zato 3.0 release will bring is API caching - this post provides an overview of functionality that is already available if you install Zato directly from source code. Read more