swagger-cli

What is swagger-cli?

The swagger-cli npm package is a command-line tool for working with Swagger and OpenAPI definitions. It provides various functionalities such as validating, bundling, dereferencing, and serving API definitions.

What are swagger-cli's main functionalities?

Validate

This feature allows you to validate your Swagger/OpenAPI definition to ensure it is correctly formatted and adheres to the specification.

swagger-cli validate my-api.yaml

Bundle

This feature bundles multiple Swagger/OpenAPI files into a single file. This is useful for managing large APIs split across multiple files.

swagger-cli bundle my-api.yaml --outfile bundled-api.yaml

Dereference

This feature dereferences $ref pointers in your Swagger/OpenAPI definition, replacing them with the actual content they point to. This can be useful for simplifying the API definition.

swagger-cli dereference my-api.yaml --outfile dereferenced-api.yaml

Serve

This feature serves your Swagger/OpenAPI definition over HTTP, allowing you to view and interact with it using a web browser.

swagger-cli serve my-api.yaml

Other packages similar to swagger-cli

swagger-parser

Swagger Parser is a powerful library for parsing, validating, and dereferencing Swagger and OpenAPI definitions. It offers similar functionalities to swagger-cli but is more focused on being used as a library within Node.js applications rather than a command-line tool.

speccy

Speccy is a command-line tool for working with OpenAPI specifications. It provides features like validation, linting, and bundling. It is similar to swagger-cli but includes additional features like linting to enforce best practices.

README

Swagger/OpenAPI CLI

Features

• Validate Swagger/OpenAPI files in JSON or YAML format
• Supports multi-file API definitions via $ref pointers
• Bundle multiple Swagger/OpenAPI files into one combined file

Related Projects

• Swagger Parser
• Swagger Express Middleware

Installation

Install using npm:

npm install -g swagger-cli

Usage

swagger-cli <command> [options] <file>

Commands:
    validate                Validates an API definition in Swagger 2.0 or OpenAPI 3.0 format

    bundle                  Bundles a multi-file API definition into a single file

Options:
    -h, --help              Show help for any command
    -v, --version           Output the CLI version number
    -d, --debug [filter]    Show debug output, optionally filtered (e.g. "*", "swagger:*", etc.)

Validate an API

The swagger-cli validate command will validate your Swagger/OpenAPI definition against the Swagger 2.0 schema or OpenAPI 3.0 Schema. It also performs additional validations against the specification, which will catch some things that aren't covered by the schema, such as duplicate parameters, invalid MIME types, etc.

The command will exit with a non-zero code if the API is invalid.

swagger-cli validate [options] <file>

Options:
    --no-schema             Do NOT validate against the Swagger/OpenAPI JSON schema

    --no-spec               Do NOT validate against the Swagger/OpenAPI specification

Git pre-commit hook

There is a useful Python tool called pre-commit that can be used to execute a wide suite of pre-commit checks. The swagger-cli validate command can be integrated as part of a git pre-commit hook by adding the following configuration to the repos entry of an existing .pre-commit-config.yaml file.

-   repo: https://github.com/APIDevTools/swagger-cli
    rev: v2.2.1
    hooks:
    - id: swagger-validation
      args: ["validate", "<path to root swagger>"]

The intention is to point to single root swagger that references multiple swagger definitions. The above hook will execute the swagger-cli validation against the root swagger anytime that a file matching the pattern .*swagger.*\.(json|yaml|yml) is modified. Any failures in this validation will prevent the git commit from being processed.

Combine Multiple Files

The Swagger and OpenAPI specs allows you to split your API definition across multiple files using $ref pointers to reference each file. You can use the swagger-cli bundle command to combine all of those referenced files into a single file, which is useful for distribution or interoperation with other tools.

By default, the swagger-cli bundle command tries to keep the output file size as small as possible, by only embedding each referenced file once. If the same file is referenced multiple times, then any subsequent references are simply modified to point to the single inlined copy of the file. If you want to produce a bundled file without any $ref pointers, then add the --dereference option. This will result in a larger file size, since multiple references to the same file will result in that file being embedded multiple times.

If you don't specify the --output-file option, then the bundled API will be written to stdout, which means you can pipe it to other commands.

The result of this method by default is written as JSON. It can be changed to YAML with the --type option, by passing the yaml value.

swagger-cli bundle [options] <file>

Options:
    -o, --outfile <file>        The output file

    -r, --dereference           Fully dereference all $ref pointers

    -f, --format <spaces>       Formats the output using the given number of spaces
                                (the default is 2 spaces)

    -t, --type <filetype>       Defines the output file type. The valid values are: json, yaml
                                (the default is JSON)

    -w, --wrap <column>         Set the line length for YAML strings
                                (the default is no wrapping)

Contributing

I welcome any contributions, enhancements, and bug-fixes. File an issue on GitHub and submit a pull request.

Building/Testing

To build/test the project locally on your computer:

1. Clone this repo
   git clone https://github.com/APIDevTools/swagger-cli.git

2. Install dependencies
   npm install

3. Run the tests
   npm test

License

Swagger CLI is 100% free and open-source, under the MIT license. Use it however you want.

Big Thanks To

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