Connector builder tools!

[Laskewitz]

Let's start a list of useful tools that you can use for building your own custom / certified / independent publisher connectors. I'll keep updating the list of tools when suggestions in this discussion appear.

Tools

• Visual Studio Code
• Paconn CLI
• Windows Terminal
• Postman
• GitHub Copilot

NPM Packages

• API Spec Converter (added by @troystaylor)
• Swagger-Markdown (added by @troystaylor)

Visual Studio Code Extensions

• Power Platform Connectors
• OpenAPI (Swagger) Editor (added by @troystaylor)
• Error Lens

[troystaylor]

My toolbox is:

• Visual Studio Code
• swagger-markdown
• Atom editor - creating readme.md file from swagger-markdown file strings (great to also check spelling for apiDefinition.swagger.json file)
• API Spec Converter - not perfect but helps to convert OpenAPI 3.0 definition file to Swagger

[Hjaf]

What about spectral?
A set of rules that can be used to validate OAS, and help with highlighting the changes needed for definitions to be used in a custom connector would be of great help.

There is a vscode extension as well, this can also be useful for pipelines that maintains custom connectors