hapi-swagger

hapi-swagger

This is a OpenAPI (aka Swagger) plug-in for HAPI v9.x to v13.x When installed it will self document the API interface in a project.

Install

You can add the module to your HAPI using npm:

$ npm install hapi-swagger --save

If you want to view the documentation from your API you will also need to install the inert and vision plugs-ins which support templates and static content serving. If you wish just to used swagger.json without the documentation for example with swagger-codegen simply set options.enableDocumentation to false.

$ npm install inert --save
$ npm install vision --save

Adding the plug-in into your project

In your apps main .js file add the following code to created a server object:

const Hapi = require('hapi');
const Inert = require('inert');
const Vision = require('vision');
const HapiSwagger = require('hapi-swagger');
const Pack = require('./package');

const server = new Hapi.Server();
server.connection({
        host: 'localhost',
        port: 3000
    });

const options = {
    info: {
            'title': 'Test API Documentation',
            'version': Pack.version,
        }
    };

server.register([
    Inert,
    Vision,
    {
        'register': HapiSwagger,
        'options': options
    }], (err) => {
        server.start( (err) => {
           if (err) {
                console.log(err);
            } else {
                console.log('Server running at:', server.info.uri);
            }
        });
    });

server.route(Routes);

Tagging your API routes

As a project may be a mixture of web pages and API endpoints you need to tag the routes you wish Swagger to document. Simply add the tags: ['api'] property to the route object for any endpoint you want documenting.

You can even specify more tags and then later generate tag-specific documentation. If you specify tags: ['api', 'foo'], you can later use /documentation?tags=foo to load the documentation on the HTML page (see next section).

{
    method: 'GET',
    path: '/todo/{id}/',
    config: {
        handler: handlers.getToDo,
        description: 'Get todo',
        notes: 'Returns a todo item by the id passed in the path',
        tags: ['api'],
        validate: {
            params: {
                username: Joi.number()
                        .required()
                        .description('the id for the todo item'),
            }
        }
    },
}

Viewing the documentation page

The plugin adds a page into your site with the route /documentation. This page contains Swaggers UI to allow users to explore your API. You can also build custom pages on your own URL paths if you wish, see: "Adding interface into a page"

Options (Plug-in level)

There are number of options for advance use cases. Most of the time you should only have to provide the info.title and info.version.

Options for UI:

• schemes: (array) The transfer protocol of the API ie ['http']
• host: (string) The host (name or IP) serving the API including port if any i.e. localhost:8080
• basePath: (string) The base path from where the API starts i.e. /v2/ (note, needs to start with /) - default: /
• pathPrefixSize: (number) Selects what segment of the URL path is used to group endpoints
• enableDocumentation: (boolean) Add documentation page - default: true,
• documentationPath: (string) The path of the documentation page - default: /documentation,
• jsonPath: (string) The path of JSON that describes the API - default: /swagger.json
• swaggerUIPath: (string) The path for the interface files - default: /swaggerui/
• expanded: (boolean) If UI is expanded when opened - default: true
• jsonEditor: (boolean) If UI should use JSON Edtior - default: false
• tags: (array) containing array of Tag Object used to group endpoints in UI.
• lang: (string) The language of the UI en, es, fr, it, ja, pl, pt, ru, tr orzh-cn - default: en
• sortTags: (string) a sort method for tags i.e. groups in UI. default or name
• sortEndpoints: (string) a sort method for endpoints in UI. path, method, ordered
• securityDefinitions:: (array) Containing Security Definitions Object. No defaults are provided.
• validatorUrl: (string) sets the external validating URL Can swtich off by setting to null

Defaults for routes settings (these can also be set a individual path level):

• payloadType: (string) How payload parameters are displayed json or form - default: json
• consumes: (array) The mimetypes consumed - default: ['application/json']
• produces: (array) The mimetypes produced - default: ['application/json']

Info object (this information will be added into the UI):

• info.title (string) Required. The title of the application
• info.description (string) A short description of the application
• info.termsOfService (string) A URL to the Terms of Service of the API
• info.contact.name (string) A contact name for the API
• info.contact.url (string) A URL pointing to the contact information. MUST be formatted as a URL
• info.contact.email (string) A email address of the contact person/organization. MUST be formatted as an email address.
• info.license.name (string) The name of the license used for the API
• info.license.url (string) The URL to the license used by the API. MUST be formatted as a URL
• info.version (string) The version number of the API

Option example

const options = {
        'info': {
            'title': 'Test API Documentation',
            'version': '5.14.3',
            'contact': {
                'name': 'Glenn Jones',
                'email': '[e-mail]'
        },
        'schemes': ['https'],
        'host': 'example.com'
    };

Options (Within a HAPI route)

• payloadType: (string) How payload parameters are displayed json or form - default: json
• consumes: (array) The mimetypes consumed - default: ['application/json']
• produces: (array) The mimetypes produced - default: ['application/json']
• security:: (array) Containing Security Requirement Object. No defaults are provided.
• order: (int) The order in which endpoints are displayed, works with options.sortEndpoints = 'ordered'

Grouping endpoints with tags

Swagger provides a tag object which allows you to group your endpoints in the swagger-ui interface. The name of the tag needs to match path of your endpoinds, so in the example below all enpoints with the path /store and /sum will be group togther.

let options = {
    info: {
        'title': 'Test API Documentation',
        'version': Pack.version,
    },
    tags: [{
        'name': 'users',
        'description': 'Users data'
    },{
        'name': 'store',
        'description': 'Storing a sum',
        'externalDocs': {
            'description': 'Find out more about storage',
            'url': 'http://example.org'
        }
    }, {
        'name': 'sum',
        'description': 'API of sums',
        'externalDocs': {
            'description': 'Find out more about sums',
            'url': 'http://example.org'
        }
    }]
};

The groups are order in the same sequence you add them to the tags array in the plug-in options. You can enforce the order by name A-Z by switching the plugin options.sortTags = 'name'.

Ordering the endpoints with groups

The endpoints within the UI groups can be order with the property options.sortEndpoints, by default the are ordered A-Z using the path information. Can also order them by method. Finnally if you wish to enforce you own order then you added route option order to each endpoint and switch options.sortEndpoints = 'ordered'.

{
    method: 'PUT',
    path: '/test',
    config: {
        description: 'Add',
        tags: [
            'api'
        ],
        plugins: {
            'hapi-swagger': {
                order: 2
            }
        }
    }
}

Route option example

The route level options are always placed within the plugins.hapi-swagger object under config. These options are only assigned to the route they are apply to.

{
		method: 'PUT',
		path: '/store/{id}',
		config: {
			handler: handlers.storeUpdate,
			plugins: {
				'hapi-swagger': {
					responses: {'400': {'description': 'Bad Request'}},
					payloadType: 'form'
				}
			},
			tags: ['api'],
			validate: {
				payload: {
					a: Joi.number()
						.required()
						.description('the first number')

				}
			}
		}
	}

Response Object

HAPI allow you to define a response object for an API endpoint. The response object is used by HAPI to both validate and describe the output of an API. It uses the same JOI validation objects to describe the input parameters. The plugin turns these object into visual description and examples in the Swagger UI.

An very simple example of the use of the response object:

const responseModel = Joi.object({
    equals: Joi.number(),
}).label('Result');

within you route object ...

config: {
    handler: handlers.add,
    description: 'Add',
    tags: ['api'],
    notes: ['Adds together two numbers and return the result'],
    validate: {
        params: {
            a: Joi.number()
                .required()
                .description('the first number'),

            b: Joi.number()
                .required()
                .description('the second number')
        }
    },
    response: {schema: responseModel}
}

A working demo of more complex uses of response object can be found in the be-more-hapi project.

Status Codes

You can add HTTP status codes to each of the endpoints. As HAPI routes don not directly have a property for status codes so you need to add them the plugin configuration. The status codes need to be added as an array of objects with an error code and description. The description is required, the schema is optional and unlike added response object the example above this method does not validate the API response.

config: {
    handler: handlers.add,
    description: 'Add',
    tags: ['api'],
    notes: ['Adds together two numbers and return the result'],
    plugins: {
			'hapi-swagger': {
				responses: {
            		'200': {
                        'description': 'Success',
                        'schema': Joi.object({
                                equals: Joi.number(),
                            }).label('Result')
                    },
            		'400': {'description': 'Bad Request'}
			    }
			},
    validate: {
        params: {
            a: Joi.number()
                .required()
                .description('the first number'),

            b: Joi.number()
                .required()
                .description('the second number')
        }
    }
}

File upload

The plug-in has basic support for file uploads into your API's. Below is an example of a route with a file upload, the three important elements are:

• payloadType: 'form' in the plugins section creates a form for upload
• .meta({ swaggerType: 'file' }) add to the payload property you wish to be file upload
• payload configuration how HAPI will process file

{
    method: 'POST',
    path: '/store/file/',
    config: {
        handler: handlers.storeAddFile,
        plugins: {
            'hapi-swagger': {
                payloadType: 'form'
            }
        },
        tags: ['api'],
        validate: {
            payload: {
                file: Joi.any()
                    .meta({ swaggerType: 'file' })
                    .description('json file')
            }
        },
        payload: {
            maxBytes: 1048576,
            parse: true,
            output: 'stream'
        },
        response: {schema : sumModel}
}

The https://github.com/glennjones/be-more-hapi project has an example of file upload with the handler function dealing with validation, such as filetype and schema validation.

Naming

There are times when you may wish to name a object so that its label in the Swagger interface make more sense to humans. This is most common when you have endpoint which take JSON structures. To label a object simply wrap it as a JOI object and chain the label function as below. You need to give different structure its own unique name.

validate: {
    payload: Joi.object({
        a: Joi.number(),
        b: Joi.nunber()
    }).label('Sum')
}

Default values and examples

You can add both default values and examples to your JOI objects which are displayed within the Swagger interface. Defaults are turned into pre-fill values, either in the JSON of a payload or in the text inputs of forms.

validate: {
    payload: Joi.object({
        a: Joi.number().default('10'),
        b: Joi.nunber().default('15')
    }).label('Sum')
}

Examples are only shown in the JSON objects and are not used in the text inputs of forms. This is a limitations of Swagger.

validate: {
    payload: Joi.object({
        a: Joi.number().example('10'),
        b: Joi.nunber().example('15')
    }).label('Sum')
}

Headers and .unknown()

A common issue with the use of headers is that you may only want to validate some of the headers sent in a request and you are not concerned about other headers that maybe sent also. You can use JOI .unknown() to allow any all other headers to be sent without validation errors.

validate: {
    params: {
        a: Joi.number()
            .required()
            .description('the first number'),

        b: Joi.number()
            .required()
            .description('the second number')
    },
    headers: Joi.object({
         'authorization': Joi.string().required()
    }).unknown()
}

Adding the interface into your own custom page

The plugin adds all the resources needed to build the interface into your any page in your project. All you need to do is add some javascript into the header of a web page and add two elements into the HTML where you wish it to render. The example be-more-hapi project makes use of a custom page where the interface is used with other elements.

Adding the javascript

The all the files in the URLs below are added by the plugin, but you must server the custom page as template using reply.view().

<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}images/favicon-32x32.png" sizes="32x32" />
  <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}images/favicon-16x16.png" sizes="16x16" />
  <link href='{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}css/typography.css' media='screen' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
  <link href='{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}css/reset.css' media='screen' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
  <link href='{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}css/screen.css' media='screen' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
  <link href='{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}css/reset.css' media='print' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
  <link href='{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}css/print.css' media='print' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
  <script src='{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}lib/jquery-1.8.0.min.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
  <script src='{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}lib/jquery.slideto.min.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
  <script src='{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}lib/jquery.wiggle.min.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
  <script src='{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}lib/jquery.ba-bbq.min.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
  <script src='{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}lib/handlebars-2.0.0.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
  <script src='{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}lib/underscore-min.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
  <script src='{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}lib/backbone-min.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
  <script src='{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}swagger-ui.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
  <script src='{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}lib/highlight.7.3.pack.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
  <script src='{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}lib/marked.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
  <script src='{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}lib/swagger-oauth.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
  <script src='{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}extend.js' type='text/javascript'></script>

  <!-- Some basic translations -->
  <script src='{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}/lang/translator.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
  <script src='{{hapiSwagger.swaggerUIPath}}/lang/{{hapiSwagger.lang}}.js' type='text/javascript'></script>

  <script type="text/javascript">
    $(function () {
      var url = window.location.search.match(/url=([^&]+)/);
      if (url && url.length > 1) {
        url = decodeURIComponent(url[1]);
      } else {
        url = "{{{hapiSwagger.jsonPath}}}";
      }

      // Pre load translate...
      if(window.SwaggerTranslator) {
        window.SwaggerTranslator.translate();
      }

      // pull validatorUrl string or null form server
      var validatorUrl = null;
      {{#if hapiSwagger.validatorUrl}}
      validatorUrl: '{{hapiSwagger.validatorUrl}}';
      {{/if}}

      window.swaggerUi = new SwaggerUi({
        url: url,
        dom_id: "swagger-ui-container",
        supportedSubmitMethods: ['get', 'post', 'put', 'delete', 'patch'],
        onComplete: function(swaggerApi, swaggerUi){
          if(window.SwaggerTranslator) {
            window.SwaggerTranslator.translate();
          }
          $('pre code').each(function(i, e) {
            hljs.highlightBlock(e)
          });
        },
        onFailure: function(data) {
          log("Unable to Load SwaggerUI");
        },
        docExpansion: "{{hapiSwagger.expanded}}",
        apisSorter: apisSorter.{{hapiSwagger.sortTags}},
        operationsSorter: operationsSorter.{{hapiSwagger.sortEndpoints}},
        showRequestHeaders: false,
        validatorUrl: validatorUrl
      });

      window.swaggerUi.load();

      function log() {
        if ('console' in window) {
          console.log.apply(console, arguments);
        }
      }
  });

  // creates a list of tags in the order they where created
    var tags = []
    {{#each hapiSwagger.tags}}
    tags.push('{{name}}');
    {{/each}}
</script>

Adding the HTML elements

Place the HTML code below into the body fo web page where you wish the interface to render

<section id="swagger">
    <h1 class="entry-title api-title">API</h1>
    <div id="message-bar" class="swagger-ui-wrap"></div>
    <div id="swagger-ui-container" class="swagger-ui-wrap"></div>
</section>

Custom tag-specific documentation

If you want to generate tag-specific documentation, you should change the URL in the Javascript above from

url: window.location.protocol + '//' + window.location.host + '{{hapiSwagger.endpoint}}',

to:

url: window.location.protocol + '//' + window.location.host + '{{hapiSwagger.endpoint}}?tags=foo,bar,baz',

This will load all routes that have one or more of the given tags (foo or bar or baz). More complex use of tags include:

?tags=mountains,beach,horses
this will show routes WITH 'mountains' OR 'beach' OR 'horses'

?tags=mountains,beach,+horses
this will show routes WITH ('mountains' OR 'beach')  AND 'horses'

?tags=mountains,+beach,-horses
this will show routes WITH 'mountains' AND 'beach' AND NO 'horses'

Features from HAPI that cannot be ported to Swagger

Not all the flexibility of HAPI and JOI can to ported over to the Swagger schema. Below is a list of the most common asked for features that cannot be ported.

• Joi.alternatives() This allows parameters to be more than one type. i.e. string or int. Swagger does not yet support this because of a number codegen tooles using swagger build to typesafe languages. This maybe added to the next version of OpenAPI spec
• {/filePath*} The path parameters with the * char are not supported, either is the {/filePath*3} the pattern. This will mostly likely be added to the next version of OpenAPI spec.
• .allow( null ) The current Swagger spec does not support null. This maybe added to the next version of OpenAPI spec.

Lab test

The project has integration and unit tests. To run the test within the project type one of the following commands.

$ lab
$ lab -r html -o coverage.html
$ lab -r html -o coverage.html --lint
$ lab -r console -o stdout -r html -o coverage.html --lint

If you are considering sending a pull request please add tests for the functionality you add or change.

Thanks

I would like all that have contributed to the project over the last couple of years. This is a hard project to maintain getting HAPI to work with Swagger is like putting a round plug in a square hole. Without the help of others it would not be possible.

Issues

If you find any issue please file here on github and I will try and fix them.