[encima]

OpenAPI and RAML both have some pretty cool tools to generate both the DB and the API stubs.

For OpenAPI, Connexion by Zalando is one of the best implementations I have used. You just need to write the logic and provide the API spec.

[heavenlyblue]

So I assume you do most of the serialization of deserialization of objects by hand in connexion?

[encima]

Mostly, yeah. It is not perfect but we have a helper library we have written that handles most CRUD operations for objects and Connexion does the validation.