---
title: "How to generate SDKs for a REST API powered by Amazon API Gateway"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-generate-sdks-for-a-rest-api-powered-by-amazon-api-gateway-ebmazxpy7
source_url: https://cloudonaut.io/generate-sdk-for-api-gateway-rest-api/
type: article
source: "cloudonaut"
published: 2025-07-22T10:09:23.767Z
updated: 2025-07-22T10:09:45.618Z
tags: ["aws", "rest-api", "api-gateway", "openapi"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# How to generate SDKs for a REST API powered by Amazon API Gateway

**[cloudonaut](https://daily.dev/sources/cloudonaut)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Explores three approaches for generating SDKs from Amazon API Gateway REST APIs: built-in API Gateway SDK generation (limited abstraction), Smithy IDL (powerful but AWS-focused with immature tooling), and OpenAPI Generator with optimized specifications (best results). The key insight is creating a separate, SDK-optimized OpenAPI document rather than using the deployment specification directly, resulting in more usable client libraries for JavaScript, Java, Python, and TypeScript.

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Tags: [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#rest-api](https://daily.dev/tags/rest-api), [#api-gateway](https://daily.dev/tags/api-gateway), [#openapi](https://daily.dev/tags/openapi)

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