SwaggerForOcelot combines two amazing projects Swashbuckle.AspNetCore and Ocelot. Allows you to view and use swagger documentation for downstream services directly through the Ocelot project.
Direct via http://ocelotprojecturl:port/swagger
provides documentation for downstream services configured in ocelot.json
. Additionally, the addresses are modified to match the UpstreamPathTemplate
from the configuration.
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- Configure SwaggerGen in your downstream services.
Follow the SwashbuckleAspNetCore documentation.
- Install Nuget package into yout ASP.NET Core Ocelot project.
dotnet add package MMLib.SwaggerForOcelot
- Configure SwaggerForOcelot in
ocelot.json
.
{
"Routes": [
{
"DownstreamPathTemplate": "/api/{everything}",
"DownstreamScheme": "http",
"DownstreamHostAndPorts": [
{
"Host": "localhost",
"Port": 5100
}
],
"UpstreamPathTemplate": "/api/contacts/{everything}",
"UpstreamHttpMethod": [ "Get" ],
"SwaggerKey": "contacts"
},
{
"DownstreamPathTemplate": "/api/{everything}",
"DownstreamScheme": "http",
"DownstreamHostAndPorts": [
{
"Host": "localhost",
"Port": 5200
}
],
"UpstreamPathTemplate": "/api/orders/{everything}",
"UpstreamHttpMethod": [ "Get" ],
"SwaggerKey": "orders"
}
],
"SwaggerEndPoints": [
{
"Key": "contacts",
"Config": [
{
"Name": "Contacts API",
"Version": "v1",
"Url": "http://localhost:5100/swagger/v1/swagger.json"
}
]
},
{
"Key": "orders",
"Config": [
{
"Name": "Orders API",
"Version": "v0.9",
"Url": "http://localhost:5200/swagger/v0.9/swagger.json"
},
{
"Name": "Orders API",
"Version": "v1",
"Url": "http://localhost:5200/swagger/v1/swagger.json"
},
{
"Name": "Orders API",
"Version": "v2",
"Url": "http://localhost:5200/swagger/v2/swagger.json"
},
{
"Name": "Orders API",
"Version": "v3",
"Url": "http://localhost:5200/swagger/v3/swagger.json"
}
]
}
],
"GlobalConfiguration": {
"BaseUrl": "http://localhost"
}
}
SwaggerEndPoint
is configuration for downstream service swagger generator endpoint. PropertyKey
is used to pair with the Route configuration.Name
is displayed in the combobox.Url
is downstream service swagger generator endpoint.
- In the
ConfigureServices
method ofStartup.cs
, register the SwaggerForOcelot generator.
services.AddSwaggerForOcelot(Configuration);
- In
Configure
method, insert theSwaggerForOcelot
middleware to expose interactive documentation.
app.UseSwaggerForOcelotUI(opt => {
opt.PathToSwaggerGenerator = "/swagger/docs";
})
You can optionally include headers that your Ocelot Gateway will send when requesting a swagger endpoint. This can be especially useful if your downstream microservices require contents from a header to authenticate.
app.UseSwaggerForOcelotUI(opt => {
opts.DownstreamSwaggerHeaders = new[]
{
new KeyValuePair<string, string>("Auth-Key", "AuthValue"),
};
})
After swagger for ocelot transforms the downstream swagger to the upstream swagger, you have the ability to alter the upstream swagger if you need to by setting the ReConfigureUpstreamSwaggerJson
option or ReConfigureUpstreamSwaggerJsonAsync
option for async methods.
public string AlterUpstreamSwaggerJson(HttpContext context, string swaggerJson)
{
var swagger = JObject.Parse(swaggerJson);
// ... alter upstream json
return swagger.ToString(Formatting.Indented);
}
app.UseSwaggerForOcelotUI(opt => {
opts.ReConfigureUpstreamSwaggerJson = AlterUpstreamSwaggerJson;
})
You can optionally customize the swagger server prior to calling the endpoints of the microservices as follows:
app.UseSwaggerForOcelotUI(opt => {
opts.ReConfigureUpstreamSwaggerJson = AlterUpstreamSwaggerJson;
opts.ServerOcelot = "/siteName/apigateway" ;
})
-
Show your microservices interactive documentation.
http://ocelotserviceurl/swagger
If you have a downstream service
hosted in the virtual directory, you probably have a DownstreamPathTemplate
starting with the name of this virtual directory /virtualdirectory/api/{everything}
. In order to properly replace the paths, it is necessary to set the property route "Virtualdirectory":"/virtualdirectory"
.
Example:
{
"DownstreamPathTemplate": "/project/api/{everything}",
"DownstreamScheme": "http",
"DownstreamHostAndPorts": [
{
"Host": "localhost",
"Port": 5100
}
],
"UpstreamPathTemplate": "/api/project/{everything}",
"UpstreamHttpMethod": [ "Get" ],
"SwaggerKey": "project",
"VirtualDirectory":"/project"
}
If you use Ocelot Service Discovery Provider to find the host and port for the downstream service, then you can use the same service name for swagger configuration.
"Routes": [
{
"DownstreamPathTemplate": "/api/{everything}",
"ServiceName": "projects",
"UpstreamPathTemplate": "/api/project/{everything}",
"SwaggerKey": "projects",
}
],
"SwaggerEndPoints": [
{
"Key": "projects",
"Config": [
{
"Name": "Projects API",
"Version": "v1",
"Service": {
"Name": "projects",
"Path": "/swagger/v1/swagger.json"
}
}
]
}
],
"GlobalConfiguration": {
"ServiceDiscoveryProvider": {
"Type": "AppConfiguration",
"PollingInterval": 1000
}
}
There are several real scenarios when you need to have a controller directly in your gateway. For example: specific aggregation of results from multiple services / legacy part of your system / ...
If you need to, you can also add documentation.
- Allow
GenerateDocsForGatewayItSelf
option in configuration section.
services.AddSwaggerForOcelot(Configuration,
(o) =>
{
o.GenerateDocsForGatewayItSelf = true;
});
- Use Swagger generator in
Configure
section.
app.UseSwagger();
You are probably familiar with Ocelot great feature Request Aggregation. Request Aggregation allows you to easily add a new endpoint to the gateway that will aggregate the result from other existing endpoints. If you use these aggregations, you would probably want to have these endpoints in the api documentation as well.
📢 From version 3.0.0
you can use this package for generating documentation for Ocelot aggregates.
In ConfigureServices
allow GenerateDocsForAggregates
option.
services.AddSwaggerForOcelot(Configuration,
(o) =>
{
o.GenerateDocsForAggregates = true;
});
Documentations of your aggregates will be available on custom page Aggregates.
The current implementation may not cover all scenarios (I hope most of them), but there are several ways you can change the final documentation.
By default, this package generate description from downstream documentation. If you want add custom description for your aggregate route, you can add description to ocelot.json
.
"Aggregates": [
{
"RouteKeys": [
"user",
"basket"
],
"Description": "Custom description for this aggregate route.",
"Aggregator": "BasketAggregator",
"UpstreamPathTemplate": "/gateway/api/basketwithuser/{id}"
}
]
It is likely that you will have different parameter names in the downstream services that you are aggregating. For example, in the User service you will have the {Id}
parameter, but in the Basket service the same parameter will be called {BuyerId}
. In order for Ocelot aggregations to work, you must have parameters named the same in Ocelot configurations, but this will make it impossible to find the correct documentation.
Therefore, you can help the configuration by setting parameter name map.
{
"DownstreamPathTemplate": "/api/basket/{id}",
"UpstreamPathTemplate": "/gateway/api/basket/{id}",
"ParametersMap": {
"id": "buyerId"
},
"ServiceName": "basket",
"SwaggerKey": "basket",
"Key": "basket"
}
Property ParametersMap
is map, where key
(first parameter) is the name of parameter in Ocelot configuration and value
(second parameter) is the name of parameter in downstream service.
The response documentation is generated according to the rules that Ocelot uses to compose the response from the aggregate. If you use your custom IDefinedAggregator
, your result may be different. In this case you can use AggregateResponseAttibute
.
[AggregateResponse("Basket with buyer and busket items.", typeof(CustomResponse))]
public class BasketAggregator : IDefinedAggregator
{
public async Task<DownstreamResponse> Aggregate(List<HttpContext> responses)
{
...
}
}
If you do not like the final documentation, you can modify it by defining your custom postprocessor.
services.AddSwaggerForOcelot(Configuration,
(o) =>
{
o.GenerateDocsForAggregates = true;
o.AggregateDocsGeneratorPostProcess = (aggregateRoute, routesDocs, pathItemDoc, documentation) =>
{
if (aggregateRoute.UpstreamPathTemplate == "/gateway/api/basketwithuser/{id}")
{
pathItemDoc.Operations[OperationType.Get].Parameters.Add(new OpenApiParameter()
{
Name = "customParameter",
Schema = new OpenApiSchema() { Type = "string"},
In = ParameterLocation.Header
});
}
};
});
🙏 Feel free to provide a PR with implementation of your scenario. You will probably help many others.
Optionally you can use the Ocelot feature Merging configuration files to load the apigateway configuration from multiple configuration files named as follows: ocelot.exampleName.json
. To activate this feature you need to use the following extension:
WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
.ConfigureAppConfiguration((hostingContext, config) =>
{
config.AddOcelotWithSwaggerSupport();
})
.UseStartup<Startup>();
Using this extension the swagger path settings must be in a file called: ocelot.SwaggerEndPoints.json
. If instead you want to use another name for this file you could set the name as follows (without the .json extension):
WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
.ConfigureAppConfiguration((hostingContext, config) =>
{
config.AddOcelotWithSwaggerSupport((o) => {
o.FileOfSwaggerEndPoints = "ocelot.swagger";
})
})
.UseStartup<Startup>();
Optionally you can put the configuration files in a folder, and for that you have to set the extension as follows:
WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
.ConfigureAppConfiguration((hostingContext, config) =>
{
config.AddOcelotWithSwaggerSupport((o) => {
o.Folder = "Configuration";
});
})
.UseStartup<Startup>();
Optionally you can also add configuration files with the format ocelot.exampleName.json
per environment, to use this functionality you must configure the extension as follows:
WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
.ConfigureAppConfiguration((hostingContext, config) =>
{
config.AddOcelotWithSwaggerSupport((o) => {
o.Folder = "Configuration";
o.Environment = hostingContext.HostingEnvironment;
});
})
.UseStartup<Startup>();
To save the primary Ocelot config file under a name other than `ocelot.json then use the following:
WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
.ConfigureAppConfiguration((hostingContext, config) =>
{
config.AddOcelotWithSwaggerSupport((o) => {
o.PrimaryOcelotConfigFile = "myOcelot.json";
});
})
.UseStartup<Startup>();
With the ISwaggerDownstreamInterceptor
interface you are able to inject your own logic to control the downstream.
- In the ConfigureServices method of Startup.cs, register your downstream interceptor along with your other dependencies.
services.AddSingleton<ISwaggerDownstreamInterceptor, PublishedDownstreamInterceptor>();
services.AddSingleton<ISwaggerEndpointConfigurationRepository, DummySwaggerEndpointRepository>();
- In your downstream interceptor add your custom logic to control if the downstream should be done.
public class PublishedDownstreamInterceptor : ISwaggerDownstreamInterceptor
{
private readonly ISwaggerEndpointConfigurationRepository _endpointConfigurationRepository;
public PublishedDownstreamInterceptor(ISwaggerEndpointConfigurationRepository endpointConfigurationRepository)
{
_endpointConfigurationRepository = endpointConfigurationRepository;
}
public bool DoDownstreamSwaggerEndpoint(HttpContext httpContext, string version, SwaggerEndPointOptions endPoint)
{
var myEndpointConfiguration = _endpointConfigurationRepository.GetSwaggerEndpoint(endPoint, version);
if (!myEndpointConfiguration.IsPublished)
{
httpContext.Response.StatusCode = 404;
httpContext.Response.WriteAsync("This enpoint is under development, please come back later.");
}
return myEndpointConfiguration.IsPublished;
}
}
Note, the service is still visible in the swagger ui the response is only visible in the request to the downstream url. If you want to control the visibility of the endpoints as well you have to implement a custom swagger ui.
- Now, this library support only
{everything}
as a wildcard in routing definition. #68 - This package unfortunately does not support parameter translating between upstream and downstream path template. #59
This version is breaking change. Because support Ocelot 16.0.0, which rename ReRoutes
to Routes
. See Ocelot v16.0.0.