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mbuhot

OpenApiSpex - OpenAPI / Swagger 3.0 for Plug APIs

Leverage Open Api 3.0 (Swagger) to document, test, validate and explore your Plug and Phoenix APIs.

  • Generate and serve a JSON Open API (swagger) document from your code
  • Use the spec to cast request params to well defined schema structs
  • Validate params against schemas, eliminate bad requests before they hit your controllers
  • Validate responses against schemas in tests, ensuring your docs are accurate and reliable
  • Explore the API interactively with with SwaggerUI

Github: GitHub - open-api-spex/open_api_spex: Open API Specifications for Elixir Plug applications · GitHub
Docs: open_api_spex v3.22.3 — Documentation
Hex: open_api_spex | Hex

Integrating with phoenix controllers:

  @spec open_api_operation(atom) :: Operation.t
  def open_api_operation(action), do: apply(__MODULE__, :"#{action}_operation", [])

  @spec show_operation() :: Operation.t
  def show_operation() do
    %Operation{
      tags: ["users"],
      summary: "Show user",
      description: "Show a user by ID",
      operationId: "UserController.show",
      parameters: [
        Operation.parameter(:id, :path, :integer, "User ID", example: 123)
      ],
      responses: %{
        200 => Operation.response("User", "application/json", UserResponse)
      }
    }
  end
  def show(conn, %{"id" => id}) do
    {:ok, user} = MyApp.Users.find_by_id(id)
    json(conn, 200, user)
  end

Cast and validate params:

  plug OpenApiSpex.Plug.Cast
  plug OpenApiSpex.Plug.Validate

  def open_api_operation(action) do
    apply(__MODULE__, :"#{action}_operation", [])
  end

  def create_operation do
    import Operation
    %Operation{
      tags: ["users"],
      summary: "Create user",
      description: "Create a user",
      operationId: "UserController.create",
      parameters: [],
      requestBody: request_body("The user attributes", "application/json", UserRequest),
      responses: %{
        201 => response("User", "application/json", UserResponse)
      }
    }
  end

  def create(conn, request = %UserRequest{user: %User{name: name, email: email, birthday: birthday = %Date{}}}) do
    ...  
end

First Post!

mbuhot

mbuhot

Version 2.3.0 released.
Now supports validating enum string types.

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mbuhot

mbuhot

Version 3.2.0 released.

Lots of internal improvements and some new features thanks to the wonderful contributors, particularly @moxley and the team at Ghost Group / Weedmaps. :heart:

Highlights:

  • Jason library support for JSON serialization
  • Improved memory usage
  • Improved error messages and validations
  • Integrate SwaggerUI with Plug.CSRFProtection

See the changelog for more details.

moxley

moxley

Version 3.5.0 is released!

This version has a lot of changes from the last several months. Highlights:

  • Ability to import Open API documents into OpenApiSpex, as an alternative to defining specs using using OpenApiSpex’ Elixir syntax.
  • Experimental support for ExDoc-based operation specs. Use doc tags in your controller to define operations instead of defining callback functions.
  • Improved Open API compliance and bug fixes for casting and validations
  • Deprecate the legacy cast & validate implementation for the newer Cast module.

Thank you to @mbuhot for letting me manage the release.

moxley

moxley

Version 3.10.0 is released!

  • Feature: Support OAuth2 for swagger-ui (#217)
  • Feature: Support default response type in responses (#301)
  • Feature: Allow overriding x-struct in OpenApiSpex.schema/1 (#304)
  • Feature: Ability to specify deprecated in ControllerSpec operation (#296)
  • Feature: :struct? and :derive? options in OpenApiSpex.schema/1 (#312)
  • Feature: OpenApiSpex.add_schemas/2 (#314)
  • Enhancement: Remove api_spec data from Conn (#286)
  • Enhancement: More informative errors for bad schema (#288, #284, #287)
  • Fix: Convert :format value to atom when decoding schema file (#293)
  • Fix: Type spec in OpenApiSpex.Info
  • Fix: Elixir Formatter rules in published package (#306)
  • Docs: Fix spelling error in example code (#295)
  • Docs: Fix type in README (#297)
  • Docs: Fix links and punctuation in README (#298)
  • Docs: Promote ControlerSpecs as the preferred API for controller operations (#311)

As always, a huge thank you to all the contributors and maintainers for keeping the project going :heart:

Last Post!

mbuhot

mbuhot

You could define the schemas for those messages, but there isn’t any support for CastAndValidate on Channels.

Maybe the library could be extended to output an AsyncAPI spec for the channels along with an OpenAPI spec for the HTTP endpoints.

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