ah-swagger-plugin

Generate Swagger-UI documentation from Actionhero

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NPM | GitHub

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Install

• npm install ah-swagger-plugin --save

Be sure to specify the location of the installed plugin in /config/api.js

For example, if you list ah-swagger-plugin as an NPM dependency you can point directly to node_modules:

// ...
// configuration for your actionhero project structure
paths: {
  //... 
  'plugin': [ __dirname + '/../node_modules' ]
},

Setup

As we do for all Actionhero plugins, add an entry 'ah-swagger-plugin' to /config/plugins.js

exports['default'] = {
  general: function(api)
  {
    return {
      plugins: [
        // ...
        'ah-swagger-plugin'
        
      ]
    };
  }
};

For more information, checkout the Actionhero docs.

Configuration

To override default configurations, define the namespace api.config.swagger:

exports['default'] = { 
  swagger: function(api){
    return {
      // Should be changed to hit www.yourserver.com.  If this is null, defaults to ip:port from
      // internal values or from hostOverride and portOverride.
      baseUrl: '127.0.0.1:8080',
      // Specify routes that don't need to be displayed
      ignoreRoutes: [ '/swagger' ],
      // Specify how routes are grouped
      routeTags : {
        'basics' : [ 'showDocumentation', 'status' ]
      },
      // Generate documentation for simple actions specified by action-name
      documentSimpleRoutes: true,
      // Generate documentation for actions specified under config/routes.js
      documentConfigRoutes: true,
      // Set true if you want to organize actions by version
      groupByVersionTag: true,
      // For simple routes, groups all actions under a single category
      groupBySimpleActionTag: true,
      // In some cases where actionhero network topology needs to point elsewhere.  If null, uses
      // api.config.swagger.baseUrl
      hostOverride: null,
      // Same as above, if null uses the internal value set in config/server/web.js
      portOverride: null
    }
  }
}

Overview

This plugin will create an end-point that analyzes your Actionhero routes and provides JSON for swagger to consume.

For simplicity, a default swagger.html is provided under the default ./public/ folder. Contents are directly from the pre-compiled swagger-ui package.

Below is an example of how an action can be defined:

exports.myAction = {
  name: 'myAction',
  summary: 'A simple summary of my action',
  description: 'A detailed description of my action.',
  responseSchemas: {
    // By default set this 200 property to provide a sample response in the form of a JSON schema
    // object.  Since schemas can get pretty bulky, consider requiring a file instead of having 
    // everything in-line.  E.g. '200': require('myResponseSchema.js')
    // 
    // It's also possible to automate schema generation with json-schema-generator with json-patch.
    '200': {
      description: 'Sample http 200 response',
      schema: {
        type: 'object',
        properties: {
          'marco': {
            type: 'string',
            example: 'polo'
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  inputs: {
    required: [ 'myParam' ],
    // Each input parameter needs to be defined as a property, including input parameters for routes.
    myParam: {
      description: 'A detailed description of myParam',
      required: true,
      // Define this as an enum if you want to specify the list of possible values.
      enum: [ 'value1', 'value2', 'value3' ]
    }
  },
  // For post/put http requests, describing the body is set here in JSON schema form.
  modelSchema: {
    myParam: {
      type: 'string',
      example: 'value1'
    },
    otherData: {
      type: 'string',
      example: '-data1'
    }
  },
  // A tag will group/organize actions together
  tags: [ 'Examples' ],
  run: function(api, data, next) {
    next();
  }
};

LIMITATIONS:

• Using an API key with a file-multiform-upload doesn't work as expected

TODOs:

• Make swagger html files optional or easily over-ridden
• Include tests

Credits

Props go out to @BoLaMN for laying the ground work on cracking the translation between Swagger and Actionhero.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Son-Huy Pham

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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