openapi-schema-validator

openapi-schema-validator

A validator for OpenAPI documents.

Supported OpenAPI versions

• v3
• v2 (formerly known as Swagger V2)

Document examples and full specs:

• Official 2.0 docs
• Official 3.0.0 docs

Highlights

• Validate openapi documents against openapi schema documents.
• Uses jsonschema under the hood.
• Performant.
• Currently supports type definitions included in the definitions property of the provided openapi document.
• Extensively tested.
• Small footprint.

Huge thank you to the gnostic project for building up a 3.0.0 JSON schema.

Example

var OpenAPISchemaValidator = require('openapi-schema-validator').default;
var validator = new OpenAPISchemaValidator({
  version: 2,
  // optional
  extensions: {
    /* place any properties here to extend the schema. */
  }
});
console.log(validator.validate(apiDoc));

• version number openapi document schema version to use (2 or 3).
  • 2 - openapi-2.0.0 (default)
  • 3 - openapi-3.0.0

see here for example results.

API

.validate(apiDoc)

• apiDoc object is any api document you wish to validate.

LICENSE

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2018 Kogo Software LLC

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