In this article, you will learn about what is Mulesoft Anypoint Design Center in an anypoint platform, API Designer, API specifications, steps for creating RAML in Anypoint Designer and also some of frequently asked questions on mule design center.
Mulesoft Anypoint Design Center
Mule Design Center is a collaborative workspace in the Mulesoft Anypoint Platform that enables you to create, manage, and share your API specifications using RAML (Restful API Modelling Language)
Mulesoft Design Center provides two tools, they are as follows:
- API Designer
- Flow Designer
Mulesoft API Designer :
Anypoint API Designer is a powerful and user-friendly tool that helps us to create API specifications in several modeling languages like RAML, OAS…
- API Designer supports RAML in two versions i.e., 0.8 and 1.0
- API Designer supports OAS in two versions i.e., 2.0 and 3.0
API Specification
An API Specification is a blueprint for APIs which provides a detailed understanding of how an API behaves, what kind of request an API is accepting, what kind of response it is giving, and what are the mandatory fields/datatype, etc…
How do I create a Raml in design center ?
Step 1: Open www.anypoint.mulesoft.com in your favorite web browser and click on Design Center.
Step 2: Now, In the Design Center Click on Create New > New API Spec
Step 3: Click on New API Spec
Now, Please Enter your API Specification Name. Actually, Design Center will allow us to write RAML in 2 modes, the First mode is Writing From Scratch with Interactive documentation support, Also we feel a little bit of coding experience in this mode, and the Second One is through a visual interface guide.
Now we can move forward with the first mode.
After choosing, click on Create API Spec
Step 4: Now, You Can write your first API specification.
That’s it, Now You can publish it to Anypoint exchange So that it is available to everyone in your organization.
For Detailed Explanation with example checkout the below link:
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is Anypoint Design Center?
- Anypoint Design Center is a development environment that provides fantastic tools like API Designer, which help us create API specifications very easily, and Even you can publish it to API exchange so that it is available to everyone in your organization.
- What is the difference between design Center and Anypoint studio?
- Anypoint design center – flow designer is a web based interface to develop and deploy Mule Application where as Anypoint studio is an eclipse based IDE with an inbuild mule runtime installed in your system where you can design,develop, test and deploy mule applications.
- What is use of design center in MuleSoft?
- API Designer enables you to create API specifications in several modeling languages and create RAML API fragments. After you create a specification or fragment, publish it to Anypoint Exchange for anyone in your MuleSoft organization to use.
- How do I create a Raml in design center?
- Step 1: Open www.anypoint.mulesoft.com in your favorite web browser and click on Design Center.
- Step 2: Now, In the Design Center Click on Create New > New API Spec
- Step 3: Click on New API Spec
- Now, Please Enter your API Specification Name. Actually, Design Center will allow us to write RAML in 2 modes, the First mode is Writing From Scratch with Interactive documentation support, Also we feel a little bit of coding experience in this mode, and the Second One is through a visual interface guide.
- Now we can move forward with the first mode.
- After choosing, click on Create API Spec
- Step 4: Now, You Can write your first API specification.
- That’s it, Now You can publish it to Anypoint exchange So that it is available to everyone in your organization.
If you have any questions or suggestions about Design Center, API Specification, or Mulesoft Anypoint Platform, please feel free to leave a comment below.
