This repo is a work in progress. The basic concept is create some TypeScript interfaces to describe an API, generate some documentation, and then pick a target language to generate schemas. Initial implementation will only support golang but if the emitter needs to be extended then additional languages should be able to be added.

Instructions

Since this library is targeting golang as it emitted language at the moment, the following instructions apply to the golang language specifically.

Scalar Types:

Scalar types should use the golang primitive values. Aliases already exist for these:

• int
• float32
• uint16
• rune
• etc...

*note: these aliases might not already exist, but will be added somehow as standard inclusions in the near future.

Golang Pointers and Omit Empty:

The Ptr<T> type can be used to specify that you'd like to output a pointer type. For example Ptr<string> gets converted to *string. Also, using the question mark token after your property declaration will translate over to the omitempty tag in the json output.

User Defined Types:

You should use the class keyword to declare a user defined schema. By design, interfaces aren't output to golang code. See next section on union types.

Union Types:

You should declare union types like this:

• type UnionTypeName = Interface1 | Interface2 | Interface3 | etc...

Since interfaces are ignored, you can avoid having unnecessary structs created for the unioned types and simply create one struct for the alias name of the union. Unions are flattened by default.

Currently unions of array types are not supported and will be generated as interface{} types.

Example:

class Interface1 {
    type: "interface1";
    common_prop1: number;
    common_prop2?: number;
    common_prop3: string;
    unique_prop1: uint16;
}

class Interface2 {
    type: "interface2";
    common_prop1: number;
    common_prop2: number;
    common_prop3: num;
    unique_prop2: string;
}

type MyUnion = Interface1 | Interface2;

Outputs the following golang code:

type MyUnion struct {
    Type        string      `json:"type"`
    CommonProp1 float64     `json:"common_prop1"`
    CommonProp2 float64     `json:"common_prop2,omitempty"` // nullable because it isn't required on all unioned types
    CommonProp3 interface{} `json:"common_prop3"`
    UniqueProp1 uint16      `json:"unique_prop1,omitempty"` // nullable because it doesn't exist on all unioned types
    UniqueProp2 string      `json:"unique_prop2,omitempty"` // nullable because it doesn't exist on all unioned types
}