Serverless OpenAPI Documentation Plugin
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.
Works well with ReDoc.
Usage
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]
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 ...................... Help
Configuration
To 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'
securitySchemes: {}
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
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/json
or application/xml
).schema
: The JSON Schema (website) that describes the model. You can either:
- use inline
YAML
to 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
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: ${file(models/PutDocumentResponse.json)}
- name: "ErrorResponse"
description: "Path to a schema example"
contentType: "application/json"
schema: models/ErrorResponse.json
Functions
To define the documentation for a given function event, you need to create a documentation
attribute for your http event in your serverless.yml
file.
The documentation
section of the event configuration can contain the following attributes:
summary
: a short description of the methoddescription
: a detailed description of the methodtags
: an array of tags for this eventdeprecated
: boolean indicator that indicates clients should migrate away from this functionrequestBody
: contains description of the request
description
: a description of the request body
requestModels
: a list of models to describe the request bodies (see requestModels below)queryParams
: a list of query parameters (see queryParams below)pathParams
: a list of path parameters (see pathParams below)cookieParams
: a list of cookie parameters (see cookieParams below)methodResponses
: an array of response models and applicable status codes
statusCode
: applicable http status code (ie. 200/404/500 etc.)responseBody
: contains description of the response
description
: a description of the body response
responseHeaders
: a list of response headers (see responseHeaders below)responseModels
: a list of models to describe the request bodies (see responseModels below) for each Content-Type
functions:
createUser:
handler: "handler.create"
events:
- http:
path: "create"
method: "post"
documentation:
summary: "Create User"
description: "Creates a user and then sends a generated password email"
requestBody:
description: "A user information object"
requestModels:
application/json: "PutDocumentRequest"
pathParams:
- name: "username"
description: "The username for a user to create"
schema:
type: "string"
pattern: "^[-a-z0-9_]+$"
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"
queryParams
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"
pathParams
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"
cookieParams
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"
requestModels
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"
methodResponses
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"
responseModels
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"
responseHeaders
and requestHeaders
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"
Example configuration
Please view the example serverless.yml.
Install
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 @conqa/serverless-openapi-documentation --save-dev
Using Yarn:
yarn add @conqa/serverless-openapi-documentation --dev
Next you need to add the plugin to the plugins
section of your serverless.yml
file.
plugins:
- @conqa/serverless-openapi-documentation
You 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-offline
to prevent issues with String.replaceAll
being overridden incorrectly.
License
MIT