Generate form with openapi schema

[Garito]

Describe the new feature you'd like
Be able to generate the form with an openapi v3+ schema

What percentage of vue-formulate users would benefit?
Everyone that uses OpenAPI

[andrew-boyd]

@Garito I'm not particularly familiar with openapi or how it would assist with generation. Would you mind clarifying what use case you're solving for?

[Garito]

The point is not to invent the wheel everytime
Since openapi is the standard for api description and it includes schema description, seems logical to me not to invent a format and use the standard instead
https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/master/versions/3.0.3.md#schemaObject
It has everything you need to automatically build your gui's forms or it has a mechanism to pass the data anyway

[justin-schroeder]

Thanks for the suggestion @Garito. I think I agree this would be a great value-add for the community. I think I see this happening in 2 steps. First, we need a more robust form generator solution — per #89. This expected JSON data will probably take the shape of the <FormulateInput> to:

1. Reduce size
2. Be really easy to hand-write JSON for.
3. Be really easy to understand

Once that feature is implemented, then I could see an plugin for OpenAPI that effectively just transforms the data conforming to OpenAPI spec into "Vue Formulate" spec. That makes it a relatively small plugin, and keeps the spirit of Vue Formulate.

Great suggestion, thanks!

[justin-schroeder]

Would love to see someone write a plugin for this. The documentation for the now-supported schema is available here: https://vueformulate.com/guide/forms/generating-forms

In the meantime i'm closing this issue since openapi is not something we'll be directly implementing, again — would be awesome to see community contribution around it.