Swagger-ui for JSON APIs sends incorrect content-type

[dblock]

Coming from swagger-api/swagger-ui#4981

Swagger UI produces multipart bodies on POST tries. I believe this is because the swagger API produces fields with in: 'formData'. It seems that the code does that for any primitive type, instead of doing in: 'body'. Doesn't seem right.

Monkey patching this works around the problem.

module GrapeSwagger
  module DocMethods
    class DataType
      class << self
        def request_primitive?(type)
          false
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

But probably not the right solution?

[hardywu]

A related issue #623. It should be either setting default consume to 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', or setting default params_type to 'body'. Otherwise, Swagger-UI will be unusable without a patch to this gem for semantic errors like:

      consumes:
        - application/json
      parameters:
        - in: formData

[mcfoton]

Have the same issue, would love to see this resolved 👀

[henrytseng]

Just a quick ping on this issue. Looks like it should be following:
https://swagger.io/docs/specification/2-0/describing-request-body/

And v3:
https://swagger.io/docs/specification/describing-request-body/

[tristil]

My workaround FYI is to add documentation: { param_type: 'body' } like this:

   requires(
            :data,
            type: Array[JSON],
            documentation: { param_type: 'body' }
          ) do
  end

[tristil]

Relevant lines are

grape-swagger/lib/grape-swagger/doc_methods/parse_params.rb

Line 67 in 564b486

param_type = value_type[:documentation][:param_type]

and

grape-swagger/lib/grape-swagger/doc_methods/parse_params.rb

Line 89 in 564b486

@parsed_param[:in] = param_type || 'formData'

[spaceraccoon]

Hi all, I've made a PR fixing this default behaviour at #880

[dhruvCW]

fixed in #927