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Create custom connectors

Create custom connectors

- [Instructor] Our first objective is to create an OpenAPI definition for a REST API. An OpenAPI definition is a REST API description definition file used to define the interface. Here is a partial example of an OpenAPI definition. There are several ways to create an OpenAPI definition, including the following, manually, which can be a laborious process, or using tools, such as using the Swashbuckle package for ASP.NET projects, or by using Swagger Inspector. Our next objective is to configure API security. The following authentication methods can be used for APIs and connectors, Generic OAuth 2.0, OAuth 2.0 for specific services, including Azure Active Directory, Dropbox, GitHub, and Salesforce, basic authentication, which uses a username and password, or an API key. It's worth noting that the service you connect to dictates who is responsible for protecting data, not the connector. This is because it's the service that…

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