Generates OpenAPI 3.0.0 documentation from serverless configuration files. OpenAPI is formerly known as Swagger. The configuration is inspired by the format used in serverless-aws-documentation. This plugin takes over serverless-openapi-documentation, which was no longer maintained. It aims to provide improvements, and especially adds support for API Gateway's HTTP Apis.
Works well with ReDoc.
This plugin requires additional configuration to use, see the "Configuration" section for how to configure the plugin to generate documentation.
Below are the commandline options to run the generator:
serverless openapi generate [options]Plugin: ServerlessOpenAPIDocumentation
openapi generate ...................... Generate OpenAPI v3 Documentation
--output / -o ...................... Output file location [default: openapi.yml|json]
--format / -f ...................... OpenAPI file format (yml|json) [default: yml]
--indent / -i ...................... File indentation in spaces [default: 2]
--help / -h ...................... HelpTo configure this plugin to generate valid OpenAPI documentation there are two places you'll need to modify in your serverless.yml file, the custom variables section and the http event section for each given function in your service.
This plugin is compatible with the same documentation configuration structure in serverless-aws-documentation and can run beside it.
The custom section of your serverless.yml can be configured as below:
custom:
documentation:
version: "1"
title: "My API"
description: "This is my API"
# https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/master/versions/3.0.2.md#securitySchemeObject
securitySchemes: {}
# https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/master/versions/3.0.2.md#security-requirement-object
security: {}
models: {}These configurations can be quite verbose; you can separate it out into it's own file, such as serverless.doc.yml as below:
custom:
documentation: ${file(serverless.doc.yml):documentation}
functions:
myFunc:
events:
- http:
path: getStuff
method: get
documentation: ${file(serverless.doc.yml):endpoints.myFunc}For more info on serverless.yml syntax, see their docs.
Models contain additional information that you can use to define schemas for endpoints. You must define the content type for each schema that you provide in the models.
The required directives for the models section are as follow:
name: the name of the schemadescription: a description of the schemacontentType: the content type of the described request/response (ie.application/jsonorapplication/xml).schema: The JSON Schema (website) that describes the model. You can either:- use inline
YAMLto define these - use serverless' functionality to merge in external schema file
- specify a path to json schema in which case if you reuse some types in multiple schemas - they will be included in resulting components once instead of duplicated for each referencing schema
- use inline
custom:
documentation:
models:
- name: "PutDocumentRequest"
description: "Inline schema example"
contentType: "application/json"
schema:
$schema: "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#"
properties:
SomeObject:
type: "object"
properties:
SomeAttribute:
type: "string"
- name: "PutDocumentResponse"
description: "External file merge example"
contentType: "application/json"
schema: ${file(models/PutDocumentResponse.json)}
- name: "ErrorResponse"
description: "Path to a schema example"
contentType: "application/json"
schema: models/ErrorResponse.jsonTo define the documentation for a given function event, you need to create a documentation attribute for your http event in your serverless.yml file.
The documentation section of the event configuration can contain the following attributes:
summary: a short description of the methoddescription: a detailed description of the methodtags: an array of tags for this eventdeprecated: boolean indicator that indicates clients should migrate away from this functionrequestBody: contains description of the requestdescription: a description of the request body
requestModels: a list of models to describe the request bodies (see requestModels below)queryParams: a list of query parameters (see queryParams below)pathParams: a list of path parameters (see pathParams below)cookieParams: a list of cookie parameters (see cookieParams below)methodResponses: an array of response models and applicable status codesstatusCode: applicable http status code (ie. 200/404/500 etc.)responseBody: contains description of the responsedescription: a description of the body response
responseHeaders: a list of response headers (see responseHeaders below)responseModels: a list of models to describe the request bodies (see responseModels below) for eachContent-Type
functions:
createUser:
handler: "handler.create"
events:
- http:
path: "create"
method: "post"
documentation:
summary: "Create User"
description: "Creates a user and then sends a generated password email"
requestBody:
description: "A user information object"
requestModels:
application/json: "PutDocumentRequest"
pathParams:
- name: "username"
description: "The username for a user to create"
schema:
type: "string"
pattern: "^[-a-z0-9_]+$"
queryParams:
- name: "membershipType"
description: "The user's Membership Type"
schema:
type: "string"
enum:
- "premium"
- "standard"
cookieParams:
- name: "SessionId"
description: "A Session ID variable"
schema:
type: "string"
methodResponses:
- statusCode: 201
responseBody:
description: "A user object along with generated API Keys"
responseModels:
application/json: "PutDocumentResponse"
- statusCode: 500
responseBody:
description: "An error message when creating a new user"
responseModels:
application/json: "ErrorResponse"Query parameters can be described as follow:
name: the name of the query variabledescription: a description of the query variablerequired: whether the query parameter is mandatory (boolean)schema: JSON schema (inline or file)
queryParams:
- name: "filter"
description: "The filter parameter"
required: true
schema:
type: "string"Path parameters can be described as follow:
name: the name of the query variabledescription: a description of the query variableschema: JSON schema (inline or file)
pathParams:
- name: "usernameId"
description: "The usernameId parameter"
schema:
type: "string"Cookie parameters can be described as follow:
name: the name of the query variabledescription: a description of the query variablerequired: whether the query parameter is mandatory (boolean)schema: JSON schema (inline or file)
cookieParams:
- name: "sessionId"
description: "The sessionId parameter"
required: true
schema:
type: "string"The requestModels property allows you to define models for the HTTP Request of the function event. You can define a different model for each different Content-Type. You can define a reference to the relevant request model named in the models section of your configuration (see Defining Models section).
requestModels:
application/json: "CreateRequest"
application/xml: "CreateRequestXML"You can define the response schemas by defining properties for your function event.
For an example of a methodResponses configuration for an event see below:
methodResponse:
- statusCode: 200
responseHeaders:
- name: "Content-Type"
description: "Content Type header"
schema:
type: "string"
responseModels:
application/json: "CreateResponse"
application/xml: "CreateResponseXML"The responseModels property allows you to define models for the HTTP Response of the function event. You can define a different model for each different Content-Type. You can define a reference to the relevant response model named in the models section of your configuration (see Defining Models section).
responseModels:
application/json: "CreateResponse"
application/xml: "CreateResponseXML"The responseHeaders/requestHeaders section of the configuration allows you to define the HTTP headers for the function event.
The attributes for a header are as follow:
name: the name of the HTTP Headerdescription: a description of the HTTP Headerschema: JSON schema (inline or file)
responseHeaders:
- name: "Content-Type"
description: "Content Type header"
schema:
type: "string"
requestHeaders:
- name: "Content-Type"
description: "Content Type header"
schema:
type: "string"Please view the example serverless.yml.
This plugin works for Serverless 1.x and up. Serverless 0.5 is not supported.
To add this plugin to your package.json:
Using npm:
npm install serverless-openapi --save-devUsing Yarn:
yarn add serverless-openapi --devNext you need to add the plugin to the plugins section of your serverless.yml file.
plugins:
- serverless-openapiYou can confirm the plugin is correctly installed by running:
serverless | grep -i "ServerlessOpenAPIDocumentation"It should return ServerlessOpenAPIDocumentation as one of the plugins on the list.
Note: Add this plugin after
serverless-offlineto prevent issues withString.replaceAllbeing overridden incorrectly.
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