UPGRADING.md

Upgrading Grape

Upgrading to >= 1.7.0

Exceptions renaming

The following exceptions has been renamed for consistency through exceptions naming :

• MissingGroupTypeError => MissingGroupType
• UnsupportedGroupTypeError => UnsupportedGroupType

See #2227 for more information.

Handling Multipart Limit Errors

Rack supports a configurable limit on the number of files created from multipart parameters (Rack::Utils.multipart_part_limit) and raises an error if params are received that create too many files. If you were handling the Rack error directly, Grape now wraps that error in Grape::Execeptions::TooManyMultipartFiles. Additionally, Grape will return a 413 status code if the exception goes unhandled.

Upgrading to >= 1.6.0

Parameter renaming with :as

Prior to 1.6.0 the parameter renaming with :as was directly touching the request payload (#params) while duplicating the old and the new key to be both available in the hash. This allowed clients to bypass any validation in case they knew the internal name of the parameter. Unfortunately, in combination with grape-swagger the internal name (name set with :as) of the parameters were documented.

This behavior was fixed. Parameter renaming is now done when using the #declared(params) parameters helper. This stops confusing validation/coercion behavior.

Here comes an illustration of the old and new behaviour as code:

# (1) Rename a to b, while client sends +a+
optional :a, type: Integer, as: :b
params = { a: 1 }
declared(params, include_missing: false)
# expected => { b: 1 }
# actual   => { b: 1 }

# (2) Rename a to b, while client sends +b+
optional :a, type: Integer, as: :b, values: [1, 2, 3]
params = { b: '5' }
declared(params, include_missing: false)
# expected => { }        (>= 1.6.0)
# actual   => { b: '5' } (uncasted, unvalidated, <= 1.5.3)

Another implication of this change is the dependent parameter resolution. Prior to 1.6.0 the following code produced a Grape::Exceptions::UnknownParameter because :a was replaced by :b:

params do
  optional :a, as: :b
  given :a do # (<= 1.5.3 you had to reference +:b+ here to make it work)
    requires :c
  end
end

This code now works without any errors, as the renaming is just an internal behaviour of the #declared(params) parameter helper.

See #2189 for more information.

Upgrading to >= 1.5.3

Nil value and coercion

Prior to 1.2.5 version passing a nil value for a parameter with a custom coercer would invoke the coercer, and not passing a parameter would not invoke it. This behavior was not tested or documented. Version 1.3.0 quietly changed this behavior, in that nil values skipped the coercion. Version 1.5.3 fixes and documents this as follows:

class Api < Grape::API
  params do
    optional :value, type: Integer, coerce_with: ->(val) { val || 0 }
  end

  get 'example' do
     params[:my_param]
  end
  get '/example', params: { value: nil }
  # 1.5.2 = nil
  # 1.5.3 = 0
  get '/example', params: {}
  # 1.5.2 = nil
  # 1.5.3 = nil
end

See #2164 for more information.

Upgrading to >= 1.5.1

Dependent params

If you use dependent params with Grape::Extensions::Hash::ParamBuilder, make sure a parameter to be dependent on is set as a Symbol. If a String is given, a parameter that other parameters depend on won't be found even if it is present.

Correct:

given :matrix do
  # dependent params
end

Wrong:

given 'matrix' do
  # dependent params
end

Upgrading to >= 1.5.0

Prior to 1.3.3, the declared helper would always return the complete params structure if include_missing=true was set. In 1.3.3 a regression was introduced such that a missing Hash with or without nested parameters would always resolve to {}.

In 1.5.0 this behavior is reverted, so the whole params structure will always be available via declared, regardless of whether any params are passed.

The following rules now apply to the declared helper when params are missing and include_missing=true:

• Hash params with children will resolve to a Hash with keys for each declared child.
• Hash params with no children will resolve to {}.
• Set params will resolve to Set.new.
• Array params will resolve to [].
• All other params will resolve to nil.

Example

class Api < Grape::API
  params do
    optional :outer, type: Hash do
      optional :inner, type: Hash do
        optional :value, type: String
      end
    end
  end
  get 'example' do
    declared(params, include_missing: true)
  end
end

get '/example'
# 1.3.3 = {}
# 1.5.0 = {outer: {inner: {value:null}}}

For more information see #2103.

Upgrading to >= 1.4.0

Reworking stream and file and un-deprecating stream like-objects

Previously in 0.16 stream-like objects were deprecated. This release restores their functionality for use-cases other than file streaming.

This release deprecated file in favor of sendfile to better document its purpose.

To deliver a file via the Sendfile support in your web server and have the Rack::Sendfile middleware enabled. See Rack::Sendfile.

class API < Grape::API
  get '/' do
    sendfile '/path/to/file'
  end
end

Use stream to stream file content in chunks.

class API < Grape::API
  get '/' do
    stream '/path/to/file'
  end
end

Or use stream to stream other kinds of content. In the following example a streamer class streams paginated data from a database.

class MyObject
  attr_accessor :result

  def initialize(query)
    @result = query
  end

  def each
    yield '['
    # Do paginated DB fetches and return each page formatted
    first = false
    result.find_in_batches do |records|
      yield process_records(records, first)
      first = false
    end
    yield ']'
  end

  def process_records(records, first)
    buffer = +''
    buffer << ',' unless first
    buffer << records.map(&:to_json).join(',')
    buffer
  end
end

class API < Grape::API
  get '/' do
    stream MyObject.new(Sprocket.all)
  end
end

Upgrading to >= 1.3.3

Nil values for structures

Nil values have always been a special case when dealing with types, especially with the following structures:

• Array
• Hash
• Set

The behavior for these structures has changed throughout the latest releases. For example:

class Api < Grape::API
  params do
    require :my_param, type: Array[Integer]
  end

  get 'example' do
     params[:my_param]
  end
  get '/example', params: { my_param: nil }
  # 1.3.1 = []
  # 1.3.2 = nil
end

For now on, nil values stay nil values for all types, including arrays, sets and hashes.

If you want to have the same behavior as 1.3.1, apply a default validator:

class Api < Grape::API
  params do
    require :my_param, type: Array[Integer], default: []
  end

  get 'example' do
     params[:my_param]
  end
  get '/example', params: { my_param: nil } # => []
end

Default validator

Default validator is now applied for nil values.

class Api < Grape::API
  params do
    requires :my_param, type: Integer, default: 0
  end

  get 'example' do
     params[:my_param]
  end
  get '/example', params: { my_param: nil } #=> before: nil, after: 0
end

Upgrading to >= 1.3.0

You will need to upgrade to this version if you depend on rack >= 2.1.0.

Ruby

After adding dry-types, Ruby 2.4 or newer is required.

Coercion

Virtus has been replaced by dry-types for parameter coercion. If your project depends on Virtus outside of Grape, explicitly add it to your Gemfile.

Here's an example of how to migrate a custom type from Virtus to dry-types:

# Legacy Grape parser
class SecureUriType < Virtus::Attribute
  def coerce(input)
    URI.parse value
  end

  def value_coerced?(input)
    value.is_a? String
  end
end

params do
  requires :secure_uri, type: SecureUri
end

To use dry-types, we need to:

1. Remove the inheritance of Virtus::Attribute
2. Rename coerce to self.parse
3. Rename value_coerced? to self.parsed?

The custom type must have a class-level parse method to the model. A class-level parsed? is needed if the parsed type differs from the defined type. In the example below, since SecureUri is not the same as URI::HTTPS, self.parsed? is needed:

# New dry-types parser
class SecureUri
  def self.parse(value)
    URI.parse value
  end

  def self.parsed?(value)
    value.is_a? URI::HTTPS
  end
end

params do
  requires :secure_uri, type: SecureUri
end

Coercing to FalseClass or TrueClass no longer works

Previous Grape versions allowed this, though it wasn't documented:

requires :true_value, type: TrueClass
requires :bool_value, types: [FalseClass, TrueClass]

This is no longer supported, if you do this, your values will never be valid. Instead you should do this:

requires :true_value, type: Boolean # in your endpoint you should validate if this is actually `true`
requires :bool_value, type: Boolean

Ensure that Array types have explicit coercions

Unlike Virtus, dry-types does not perform any implict coercions. If you have any uses of Array[String], Array[Integer], etc. be sure they use a coerce_with block. For example:

requires :values, type: Array[String]

It's quite common to pass a comma-separated list, such as tag1,tag2 as values. Previously Virtus would implicitly coerce this to Array(values) so that ["tag1,tag2"] would pass the type checks, but with dry-types the values are no longer coerced for you. To fix this, you might do:

requires :values, type: Array[String], coerce_with: ->(val) { val.split(',').map(&:strip) }

Likewise, for Array[Integer], you might do:

requires :values, type: Array[Integer], coerce_with: ->(val) { val.split(',').map(&:strip).map(&:to_i) }

For more information see #1920.

Upgrading to >= 1.2.4

Headers in error! call

Headers in error! will be merged with headers hash. If any header need to be cleared on error! call, make sure to move it to the after block.

class SampleApi < Grape::API
  before do
    header 'X-Before-Header', 'before_call'
  end

  get 'ping' do
    header 'X-App-Header', 'on_call'
    error! :pong, 400, 'X-Error-Details' => 'Invalid token'
  end
end

Former behaviour

  response.headers['X-Before-Header'] # => nil
  response.headers['X-App-Header'] # => nil
  response.headers['X-Error-Details'] # => Invalid token

Current behaviour

  response.headers['X-Before-Header'] # => 'before_call'
  response.headers['X-App-Header'] # => 'on_call'
  response.headers['X-Error-Details'] # => Invalid token

Upgrading to >= 1.2.1

Obtaining the name of a mounted class

In order to make obtaining the name of a mounted class simpler, we've delegated .to_s to base.name

Deprecated in 1.2.0

  payload[:endpoint].options[:for].name

New

  payload[:endpoint].options[:for].to_s

Upgrading to >= 1.2.0

Changes in the Grape::API class

Patching the class

In an effort to make APIs re-mountable, The class Grape::API no longer refers to an API instance, rather, what used to be Grape::API is now Grape::API::Instance and Grape::API was replaced with a class that can contain several instances of Grape::API.

This changes were done in such a way that no code-changes should be required. However, if experiencing problems, or relying on private methods and internal behaviour too deeply, it is possible to restore the prior behaviour by replacing the references from Grape::API to Grape::API::Instance.

Note, this is particularly relevant if you are opening the class Grape::API for modification.

Deprecated

class Grape::API
  # your patched logic
  ...
end

New

class Grape::API::Instance
  # your patched logic
  ...
end

name (and other caveats) of the mounted API

After the patch, the mounted API is no longer a Named class inheriting from Grape::API, it is an anonymous class which inherit from Grape::API::Instance.

What this means in practice, is:

• Generally: you can access the named class from the instance calling the getter base.
• In particular: If you need the name, you can use base.name.

Deprecated

  payload[:endpoint].options[:for].name

New

  payload[:endpoint].options[:for].base.name

Changes in rescue_from returned object

Grape will now check the object returned from rescue_from and ensure that it is a Rack::Response. That makes sure response is valid and avoids exposing service information. Change any code that invoked Rack::Response.new(...).finish in a custom rescue_from block to Rack::Response.new(...) to comply with the validation.

class Twitter::API < Grape::API
  rescue_from :all do |e|
    # version prior to 1.2.0
    Rack::Response.new([ e.message ], 500, { 'Content-type' => 'text/error' }).finish
    # 1.2.0  version
    Rack::Response.new([ e.message ], 500, { 'Content-type' => 'text/error' })
  end
end

See #1757 and #1776 for more information.

Upgrading to >= 1.1.0

Changes in HTTP Response Code for Unsupported Content Type

For PUT, POST, PATCH, and DELETE requests where a non-empty body and a "Content-Type" header is supplied that is not supported by the Grape API, Grape will no longer return a 406 "Not Acceptable" HTTP status code and will instead return a 415 "Unsupported Media Type" so that the usage of HTTP status code falls more in line with the specification of RFC 2616.

Upgrading to >= 1.0.0

Changes in XML and JSON Parsers

Grape no longer uses multi_json or multi_xml by default and uses JSON and ActiveSupport::XmlMini instead. This has no visible impact on JSON processing, but the default behavior of the XML parser has changed. For example, an XML POST containing <user>Bobby T.</user> was parsed as Bobby T. with multi_xml, and as now parsed as {"__content__"=>"Bobby T."} with XmlMini.

If you were using MultiJson.load, MultiJson.dump or MultiXml.parse, you can substitute those with Grape::Json.load, Grape::Json.dump, ::Grape::Xml.parse, or directly with JSON.load, JSON.dump, XmlMini.parse, etc.

To restore previous behavior, add multi_json or multi_xml to your Gemfile and require it.

See #1623 for more information.

Changes in Parameter Class

The default class for params has changed from Hashie::Mash to ActiveSupport::HashWithIndifferentAccess and the hashie dependency has been removed. This means that by default you can no longer access parameters by method name.

class API < Grape::API
  params do
    optional :color, type: String
  end
  get do
    params[:color] # use params[:color] instead of params.color
  end
end

To restore the behavior of prior versions, add hashie to your Gemfile and include Grape::Extensions::Hashie::Mash::ParamBuilder in your API.

class API < Grape::API
  include Grape::Extensions::Hashie::Mash::ParamBuilder

  params do
    optional :color, type: String
  end
  get do
    # params.color works
  end
end

This behavior can also be overridden on individual parameter blocks using build_with.

params do
  build_with Grape::Extensions::Hash::ParamBuilder
  optional :color, type: String
end

If you're constructing your own Grape::Request in a middleware, you can pass different parameter handlers to create the desired params class with build_params_with.

def request
  Grape::Request.new(env, build_params_with: Grape::Extensions::Hashie::Mash::ParamBuilder)
end

See #1610 for more information.

The except, except_message, and proc options of the values validator are deprecated.

The new except_values validator should be used in place of the except and except_message options of the values validator.

Arity one Procs may now be used directly as the values option to explicitly test param values.

Deprecated

params do
  requires :a, values: { value: 0..99, except: [3] }
  requires :b, values: { value: 0..99, except: [3], except_message: 'not allowed' }
  requires :c, values: { except: ['admin'] }
  requires :d, values: { proc: -> (v) { v.even? } }
end

New

params do
  requires :a, values: 0..99, except_values: [3]
  requires :b, values: 0..99, except_values: { value: [3], message: 'not allowed' }
  requires :c, except_values: ['admin']
  requires :d, values: -> (v) { v.even? }
end

See #1616 for more information.

Upgrading to >= 0.19.1

DELETE now defaults to status code 200 for responses with a body, or 204 otherwise

Prior to this version, DELETE requests defaulted to a status code of 204 No Content, even when the response included content. This behavior confused some clients and prevented the formatter middleware from running properly. As of this version, DELETE requests will only default to a 204 No Content status code if no response body is provided, and will default to 200 OK otherwise.

Specifically, DELETE behaviour has changed as follows:

• In versions < 0.19.0, all DELETE requests defaulted to a 200 OK status code.
• In version 0.19.0, all DELETE requests defaulted to a 204 No Content status code, even when content was included in the response.
• As of version 0.19.1, DELETE requests default to a 204 No Content status code, unless content is supplied, in which case they default to a 200 OK status code.

To achieve the old behavior, one can specify the status code explicitly:

delete :id do
  status 204 # or 200, for < 0.19.0 behavior
  'foo successfully deleted'
end

One can also use the new return_no_content helper to explicitly return a 204 status code and an empty body for any request type:

delete :id do
  return_no_content
  'this will not be returned'
end

See #1550 for more information.

Upgrading to >= 0.18.1

Changes in priority of :any routes

Prior to this version, :any routes were searched after matching first route and 405 routes. This behavior has changed and :any routes are now searched before 405 processing. In the following example the :any route will match first when making a request with an unsupported verb.

post :example do
  'example'
end
route :any, '*path' do
  error! :not_found, 404
end

get '/example' #=> before: 405, after: 404

Removed param processing from built-in OPTIONS handler

When a request is made to the built-in OPTIONS handler, only the before and after callbacks associated with the resource will be run. The before_validation and after_validation callbacks and parameter validations will be skipped.

See #1505 for more information.

Changed endpoint params validation

Grape now correctly returns validation errors for all params when multiple params are passed to a requires. The following code will return one is missing, two is missing when calling the endpoint without parameters.

params do
  requires :one, :two
end

Prior to this version the response would be one is missing.

See #1510 for more information.

The default status code for DELETE is now 204 instead of 200.

Breaking change: Sets the default response status code for a delete request to 204. A status of 204 makes the response more distinguishable and therefore easier to handle on the client side, particularly because a DELETE request typically returns an empty body as the resource was deleted or voided.

To achieve the old behavior, one has to set it explicitly:

delete :id do
  status 200
  'foo successfully deleted'
end

For more information see: #1532.

Upgrading to >= 0.17.0

Removed official support for Ruby < 2.2.2

Grape is no longer automatically tested against versions of Ruby prior to 2.2.2. This is because of its dependency on activesupport which, with version 5.0.0, now requires at least Ruby 2.2.2.

See #1441 for nmore information.

Changed priority of rescue_from clauses applying

The rescue_from clauses declared inside a namespace would take a priority over ones declared in the root scope. This could possibly affect those users who use different rescue_from clauses in root scope and in namespaces.

See #1405 for more information.

Helper methods injected inside rescue_from in middleware

Helper methods are injected inside rescue_from may cause undesirable effects. For example, definining a helper method called error! will take precendence over the built-in error! method and should be renamed.

See #1451 for an example.

Upgrading to >= 0.16.0

Replace rack-mount with new router

The Route#route_xyz methods have been deprecated since 0.15.1.

Please use Route#xyz instead.

Note that the Route#route_method was replaced by Route#request_method.

The following code would work correctly.

TwitterAPI::versions # yields [ 'v1', 'v2' ]
TwitterAPI::routes # yields an array of Grape::Route objects
TwitterAPI::routes[0].version # => 'v1'
TwitterAPI::routes[0].description # => 'Includes custom settings.'
TwitterAPI::routes[0].settings[:custom] # => { key: 'value' }

TwitterAPI::routes[0].request_method # => 'GET'

file method accepts path to file

Now to serve files via Grape just pass the path to the file. Functionality with FileStreamer-like objects is deprecated.

Please, replace your FileStreamer-like objects with paths of served files.

Old style:

class FileStreamer
  def initialize(file_path)
    @file_path = file_path
  end

  def each(&blk)
    File.open(@file_path, 'rb') do |file|
      file.each(10, &blk)
    end
  end
end

# ...

class API < Grape::API
  get '/' do
    file FileStreamer.new('/path/to/file')
  end
end

New style:

class API < Grape::API
  get '/' do
    file '/path/to/file'
  end
end

Upgrading to >= 0.15.0

Changes to availability of :with option of rescue_from method

The :with option of rescue_from does not accept value except Proc, String or Symbol now.

If you have been depending the old behavior, you should use lambda block instead.

class API < Grape::API
  rescue_from :all, with: -> { Rack::Response.new('rescued with a method', 400) }
end

Changes to behavior of after method of middleware on error

The after method of the middleware is now also called on error. The following code would work correctly.

class ErrorMiddleware < Grape::Middleware::Base
  def after
    return unless @app_response && @app_response[0] == 500
    env['rack.logger'].debug("Raised error on #{env['PATH_INFO']}")
  end
end

See #1147 and #1240 for discussion of the issues.

A warning will be logged if an exception is raised in an after callback, which points you to middleware that was not called in the previous version and is called now.

caught error of type NoMethodError in after callback inside Api::Middleware::SomeMiddleware : undefined method `headers' for nil:NilClass

See #1285 for more information.

Changes to Method Not Allowed routes

A 405 Method Not Allowed error now causes Grape::Exceptions::MethodNotAllowed to be raised, which will be rescued via rescue_from :all. Restore old behavior with the following error handler.

rescue_from Grape::Exceptions::MethodNotAllowed do |e|
  error! e.message, e.status, e.headers
end

See #1283 for more information.

Changes to Grape::Exceptions::Validation parameters

When raising Grape::Exceptions::Validation explicitly, replace message_key with message.

For example,

fail Grape::Exceptions::Validation, params: [:oauth_token_secret], message_key: :presence

becomes

fail Grape::Exceptions::Validation, params: [:oauth_token_secret], message: :presence

See #1295 for more information.

Upgrading to >= 0.14.0

Changes to availability of DSL methods in filters

The #declared method of the route DSL is no longer available in the before filter. Using declared in a before filter will now raise Grape::DSL::InsideRoute::MethodNotYetAvailable.

See #1074 for discussion of the issue.

Changes to header versioning and invalid header version handling

Identical endpoints with different versions now work correctly. A regression introduced in Grape 0.11.0 caused all but the first-mounted version for such an endpoint to wrongly throw an InvalidAcceptHeader. As a side effect, requests with a correct vendor but invalid version can no longer be rescued from a rescue_from block.

See #1114 for more information.

Bypasses formatters when status code indicates no content

To be consistent with rack and it's handling of standard responses associated with no content, both default and custom formatters will now be bypassed when processing responses for status codes defined by rack

See #1190 for more information.

Redirects respond as plain text with message

#redirect now uses text/plain regardless of whether that format has been enabled. This prevents formatters from attempting to serialize the message body and allows for a descriptive message body to be provided - and optionally overridden - that better fulfills the theme of the HTTP spec.

See #1194 for more information.

Upgrading to >= 0.12.0

Changes in middleware

The Rack response object is no longer converted to an array by the formatter, enabling streaming. If your custom middleware is accessing @app_response, update it to expect a Rack::Response instance instead of an array.

For example,

class CacheBusterMiddleware < Grape::Middleware::Base
  def after
    @app_response[1]['Expires'] = Time.at(0).utc.to_s
    @app_response
  end
end

becomes

class CacheBusterMiddleware < Grape::Middleware::Base
  def after
    @app_response.headers['Expires'] = Time.at(0).utc.to_s
    @app_response
  end
end

See #1029 for more information.

There is a known issue because of this change. When Grape is used with an older than 1.2.4 version of warden there may be raised the following exception having the rack-mount gem's lines as last ones in the backtrace:

NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

The issue can be solved by upgrading warden to 1.2.4 version.

See #1151 for more information.

Changes in present

Using present with objects that responded to merge would cause early evaluation of the represented object, with unexpected side-effects, such as missing parameters or environment within rendering code. Grape now only merges represented objects with a previously rendered body, usually when multiple present calls are made in the same route.

See grape-with-roar#5 and #1023.

Changes to regexp validator

Parameters with nil value will now pass regexp validation. To disallow nil value for an endpoint, add allow_blank: false.

params do
  requires :email, allow_blank: false, regexp: /.+@.+/
end

See #957 for more information.

Replace error_response with error! in rescue_from blocks

Note: error_response is being deprecated, not removed.

def error!(message, status = options[:default_status], headers = {}, backtrace = [])
  headers = { 'Content-Type' => content_type }.merge(headers)
  rack_response(format_message(message, backtrace), status, headers)
end

For example,

error_response({ message: { message: 'No such page.', id: 'missing_page' }, status: 404, headers: { 'Content-Type' => 'api/error' })

becomes

error!({ message: 'No such page.', id: 'missing_page' }, 404, { 'Content-Type' => 'api/error' })

error! also supports just passing a message. error!('Server error.') and format: :json returns the following JSON response

{ 'error': 'Server error.' }

with a status code of 500 and a Content Type of text/error.

Optionally, also replace Rack::Response.new with error!. The following are equivalent:

Rack::Response.new([ e.message ], 500, { "Content-type" => "text/error" }).finish
error!(e)

See #889 for more information.

Changes to routes when using format

Version 0.10.0 has introduced a change via #809 whereas routes no longer got file-type suffixes added if you declared a single API format. This has been reverted, it's now again possible to call API with proper suffix when single format is defined:

class API < Grape::API
  format :json

  get :hello do
    { hello: 'world' }
  end
end

Will respond with JSON to /hello and /hello.json.

Will respond with 404 to /hello.xml, /hello.txt etc.

See the #1001 and #914 for more info.

Upgrading to >= 0.11.0

Added Rack 1.6.0 support

Grape now supports, but doesn't require Rack 1.6.0. If you encounter an issue with parsing requests larger than 128KB, explictly require Rack 1.6.0 in your Gemfile.

gem 'rack', '~> 1.6.0'

See #559 for more information.

Removed route_info

Key route_info is excluded from params.

See #879 for more information.

Fix callbacks within a version block

Callbacks defined in a version block are only called for the routes defined in that block. This was a regression introduced in Grape 0.10.0, and is fixed in this version.

See #901 for more information.

Make type of group of parameters required

Groups of parameters now require their type to be set explicitly as Array or Hash. Not setting the type now results in MissingGroupTypeError, unsupported type will raise UnsupportedTypeError.

See #886 for more information.

Upgrading to >= 0.10.1

Changes to declared(params, include_missing: false)

Attributes with nil values or with values that evaluate to false are no longer considered missing and will be returned when include_missing is set to false.

See #864 for more information.

Upgrading to >= 0.10.0

Changes to content-types

The following content-types have been removed:

• atom (application/atom+xml)
• rss (application/rss+xml)
• jsonapi (application/jsonapi)

This is because they have never been properly supported.

Changes to desc

New block syntax:

Former:

  desc "some descs",
    detail: 'more details',
    entity: API::Entities::Entity,
    params: API::Entities::Status.documentation,
    named: 'a name',
    headers: [XAuthToken: {
      description: 'Valdates your identity',
      required: true
    }
  get nil, http_codes: [
    [401, 'Unauthorized', API::Entities::BaseError],
    [404, 'not found', API::Entities::Error]
  ] do

Now:

desc "some descs" do
  detail 'more details'
  params API::Entities::Status.documentation
  success API::Entities::Entity
  failure [
    [401, 'Unauthorized', API::Entities::BaseError],
    [404, 'not found', API::Entities::Error]
  ]
  named 'a name'
  headers [
    XAuthToken: {
      description: 'Valdates your identity',
      required: true
    },
    XOptionalHeader: {
      description: 'Not really needed',
      required: false
    }
  ]
end

Changes to Route Options and Descriptions

A common hack to extend Grape with custom DSL methods was manipulating @last_description.

module Grape
  module Extensions
    module SortExtension
      def sort(value)
        @last_description ||= {}
        @last_description[:sort] ||= {}
        @last_description[:sort].merge! value
        value
      end
    end

    Grape::API.extend self
  end
end

You could access this value from within the API with route.route_sort or, more generally, via env['api.endpoint'].options[:route_options][:sort].

This will no longer work, use the documented and supported route_setting.

module Grape
  module Extensions
    module SortExtension
      def sort(value)
        route_setting :sort, sort: value
        value
      end
    end

    Grape::API.extend self
  end
end

To retrieve this value at runtime from within an API, use env['api.endpoint'].route_setting(:sort) and when introspecting a mounted API, use route.route_settings[:sort].

Accessing Class Variables from Helpers

It used to be possible to fetch an API class variable from a helper function. For example:

@@static_variable = 42

helpers do
  def get_static_variable
    @@static_variable
  end
end

get do
  get_static_variable
end

This will no longer work. Use a class method instead of a helper.

@@static_variable = 42

def self.get_static_variable
  @@static_variable
end

get do
  get_static_variable
end

For more information see #836.

Changes to Custom Validators

To implement a custom validator, you need to inherit from Grape::Validations::Base instead of Grape::Validations::Validator.

For more information see Custom Validators in the documentation.

Changes to Raising Grape::Exceptions::Validation

In previous versions raising Grape::Exceptions::Validation required a single param.

raise Grape::Exceptions::Validation, param: :id, message_key: :presence

The param argument has been deprecated and is now an array of params, accepting multiple values.

raise Grape::Exceptions::Validation, params: [:id], message_key: :presence

Changes to routes when using format

Routes will no longer get file-type suffixes added if you declare a single API format. For example,

class API < Grape::API
  format :json

  get :hello do
    { hello: 'world' }
  end
end

Pre-0.10.0, this would respond with JSON to /hello, /hello.json, /hello.xml, /hello.txt, etc.

Now, this will only respond with JSON to /hello, but will be a 404 when trying to access /hello.json, /hello.xml, /hello.txt, etc.

If you declare further content_types, this behavior will be circumvented. For example, the following API will respond with JSON to /hello, /hello.json, /hello.xml, /hello.txt, etc.

class API < Grape::API
  format :json
  content_type :json, 'application/json'

  get :hello do
    { hello: 'world' }
  end
end

See the the updated API Formats documentation and #809 for more info.

Changes to Evaluation of Permitted Parameter Values

Permitted and default parameter values are now only evaluated lazily for each request when declared as a proc. The following code would raise an error at startup time.

params do
  optional :v, values: -> { [:x, :y] }, default: -> { :z }
end

Remove the proc to get the previous behavior.

params do
  optional :v, values: [:x, :y], default: :z
end

See #801 for more information.

Changes to version

If version is used with a block, the callbacks defined within that version block are not scoped to that individual block. In other words, the callback would be inherited by all versions blocks that follow the first one e.g

class API < Grape::API
  resource :foo do
    version 'v1', :using => :path do
      before do
        @output ||= 'hello1'
      end
      get '/' do
        @output += '-v1'
      end
    end

    version 'v2', :using => :path do
      before do
        @output ||= 'hello2'
      end
      get '/:id' do
        @output += '-v2'
      end
    end
  end
end

when making a API call GET /foo/v2/1, the API would set instance variable @output to hello1-v2

See #898 for more information.

Upgrading to >= 0.9.0

Changes in Authentication

The following middleware classes have been removed:

• Grape::Middleware::Auth::Basic
• Grape::Middleware::Auth::Digest
• Grape::Middleware::Auth::OAuth2

When you use theses classes directly like:

 module API
   class Root < Grape::API
     class Protected < Grape::API
       use Grape::Middleware::Auth::OAuth2,
           token_class: 'AccessToken',
           parameter: %w(access_token api_key)

you have to replace these classes.

As replacement can be used

• Grape::Middleware::Auth::Basic => Rack::Auth::Basic
• Grape::Middleware::Auth::Digest => Rack::Auth::Digest::MD5
• Grape::Middleware::Auth::OAuth2 => warden-oauth2 or rack-oauth2

If this is not possible you can extract the middleware files from grape v0.7.0 and host these files within your application

See #703 for more information.

Upgrading to >= 0.7.0

Changes in Exception Handling

Assume you have the following exception classes defined.

class ParentError < StandardError; end
class ChildError < ParentError; end

In Grape <= 0.6.1, the rescue_from keyword only handled the exact exception being raised. The following code would rescue ParentError, but not ChildError.

rescue_from ParentError do |e|
  # only rescue ParentError
end

This made it impossible to rescue an exception hieararchy, which is a more sensible default. In Grape 0.7.0 or newer, both ParentError and ChildError are rescued.

rescue_from ParentError do |e|
  # rescue both ParentError and ChildError
end

To only rescue the base exception class, set rescue_subclasses: false.

rescue_from ParentError, rescue_subclasses: false do |e|
  # only rescue ParentError
end

See #544 for more information.

Changes in the Default HTTP Status Code

In Grape <= 0.6.1, the default status code returned from error! was 403.

error! "You may not reticulate this spline!" # yields HTTP error 403

This was a bad default value, since 403 means "Forbidden". Change any call to error! that does not specify a status code to specify one. The new default value is a more sensible default of 500, which is "Internal Server Error".

error! "You may not reticulate this spline!", 403 # yields HTTP error 403

You may also use default_error_status to change the global default.

default_error_status 400

See #525 for more information.

Changes in Parameter Declaration and Validation

In Grape <= 0.6.1, group, optional and requires keywords with a block accepted either an Array or a Hash.

params do
  requires :id, type: Integer
  group :name do
    requires :first_name
    requires :last_name
  end
end

This caused the ambiguity and unexpected errors described in #543.

In Grape 0.7.0, the group, optional and requires keywords take an additional type attribute which defaults to Array. This means that without a type attribute, these nested parameters will no longer accept a single hash, only an array (of hashes).

Whereas in 0.6.1 the API above accepted the following json, it no longer does in 0.7.0.

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": {
    "first_name": "John",
    "last_name" : "Doe"
  }
}

The params block should now read as follows.

params do
  requires :id, type: Integer
  requires :name, type: Hash do
    requires :first_name
    requires :last_name
  end
end

See #545 for more information.

Upgrading to 0.6.0

In Grape <= 0.5.0, only the first validation error was raised and processing aborted. Validation errors are now collected and a single Grape::Exceptions::ValidationErrors exception is raised. You can access the collection of validation errors as .errors.

rescue_from Grape::Exceptions::Validations do |e|
  Rack::Response.new({
    status: 422,
    message: e.message,
    errors: e.errors
  }.to_json, 422)
end

For more information see #462.