使用 Homebrew 安装 autorest

项目链接

• 主页

命令和别名

• autorest

项目历史

The Azure/autorest repository was created in February 2015. Official repository metadata describes it as an OpenAPI, formerly Swagger, specification code generator supporting multiple languages.

AutoRest evolved around a configuration-heavy model. The official docs emphasize command-line flags, YAML/JSON/Markdown configuration files, and literate readme.md files that combine human documentation with machine-readable generation settings.

采用历史

AutoRest adoption is strongly tied to Azure SDK generation and the azure-rest-api-specs repository. The official generation docs reference Azure SDK language repositories and management-plane generation, showing that AutoRest became infrastructure for large-scale, multi-language SDK production rather than just a standalone end-user CLI.

The Homebrew input lists only a Homebrew package for this batch, but official GitHub metadata shows thousands of stars and hundreds of forks for Azure/autorest, consistent with a prominent role in Azure developer tooling.

使用方式

Basic usage is autorest with an input OpenAPI file and a language flag, for example autorest --input-file=pets.json --python --output-folder=myFolder/. The preferred documented workflow moves those options into a configuration file and runs autorest readme.md.

AutoRest supports YAML, JSON, and Markdown configuration. Markdown literate configuration is especially important: docs say readme.md can serve as both project documentation and the storage for generation settings, using code blocks and the magic string that identifies AutoRest configuration.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

AutoRest matters to package nerds because it is generator infrastructure at cloud-provider scale. It explains why SDK repositories can contain large generated surfaces, language-specific generator packages, pinned core versions, and readme.md files that are executable configuration rather than just documentation.

时间线

• 2015: Azure/autorest GitHub repository created.
• 2010s: AutoRest becomes associated with Swagger/OpenAPI-based Azure SDK generation.
• 2020s: AutoRest docs emphasize multi-language generation, literate configuration, and Azure management-plane workflows.

Related projects

• azure-rest-api-specs supplies many OpenAPI inputs used with AutoRest.
• Azure SDK language repositories consume generated output from AutoRest workflows.
• OpenAPI/Swagger is the specification family AutoRest reads.

来源

• https://api.github.com/repos/Azure/autorest
• https://github.com/Azure/autorest/blob/main/docs/generate/readme.md
• https://github.com/Azure/autorest/blob/main/docs/user/configuration.md
• https://github.com/Azure/autorest/blob/main/docs/user/literate-file-formats/configuration.md