If the endpoint returns a Response object this response will be used as is.
Otherwise, and by default and if the specification defines that an endpoint produces only JSON, connexion will automatically serialize the return value for you and set the right content type in the HTTP header.
If the endpoint produces a single non-JSON mimetype then Connexion will automatically set the right content type in the HTTP header.
Connexion allows you to customize the JSONEncoder class in the Flask app instance json_encoder (connexion.App:app). If you wanna reuse the Connexion's date-time serialization, inherit your custom encoder from connexion.apps.flask_app.FlaskJSONEncoder.
For more information on the JSONEncoder, see the Flask documentation.
There are two ways of returning a specific status code.
One way is to return a Response object that will be used unchanged.
The other is returning it as a second return value in the response. For example
def my_endpoint():
return 'Not Found', 404
There are two ways to return headers from your endpoints.
One way is to return a Response object that will be used unchanged.
The other is returning a dict with the header values as the third return value in the response:
For example
def my_endpoint():
return 'Not Found', 404, {'x-error': 'not found'}
While, by default Connexion doesn't validate the responses it's possible to do so by opting in when adding the API:
import connexion
app = connexion.FlaskApp(__name__, specification_dir='swagger/')
app.add_api('my_api.yaml', validate_responses=True)
app.run(port=8080)
This will validate all the responses using jsonschema and is specially useful during development.
By default, response body contents are validated against OpenAPI schema via connexion.decorators.response.ResponseValidator
, if you want to change the validation, you can override the default class with:
validator_map = {
'response': CustomResponseValidator
}
app = connexion.FlaskApp(__name__)
app.add_api('api.yaml', ..., validator_map=validator_map)
By default connexion error messages are JSON serialized according to Problem Details for HTTP APIs
Application can return errors using connexion.problem
.