Pylons / Pylons/pyramid_openapi3

Reconsider API spec autogeneration

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Description

This is a controversial thing and I am playing the devil's advocate but I've seen a great push towards FastAPI from Pyramid or sidelining Pyramid completely at our clients, connections and partners just because FastAPI seemingly makes it easier to evolve the API design rapidly with code. Everyone who is actually evolving the API is complaining about having to do the changes twice or thrice to the API document, view code and actual model handling. Only I seem to be defending the design, which might just be because I have never touched the YAML myself :D

Perhaps there could be some hybrid approach that would combine best of both worlds, making it possible to derive the API spec from code up to a point - not unlike how Sphinx Autodoc works for documentation

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by mapping the existing API document, view code, and model-handling workflow in pyramid_openapi3, then compare it with FastAPI's code-derived approach. Before implementation, establish a concrete scope and acceptance criteria for what can be autogenerated.

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Assessment

Tech stack
fastapi, openapi, python
Domain
api, backend-api-design
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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