Suppose I created a Rest Service http://SomeServer/api/todo ,and installed on server. Now is there a way for the client to find out what all operations/functionality is provided by this Rest API, just by URL ?
For e.g. if you hit the URL below with get method, it will return the detail of todo item 1 http://SomeServer/api/todo/1
This is exactly what Swagger provides you with. It also has a UI which you can easily hook up to your REST application.
Have a look at: