Generic API topic types

The generic API topic types describe any application programming interface (API) library and can serve as a basis for deriving more specialized topic types for specific languages or other library environments.

Description

The general-purpose topic types layer can be specialized to provide language-specific or environment-specific topic types for an API reference. You should use the most specific set of topic types that match the language or environment for your library. For example, use the Java API topic type for Java language.

The API reference provides the following set of general purpose topic types for describing the interface provided by programmable libraries: