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Swagger UI is a dependency-free collection of HTML, Javascript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.

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Swagger UI

Swagger UI is part of the Swagger project. The Swagger project allows you to produce, visualize and consume your OWN RESTful services. No proxy or 3rd party services required. Do it your own way.

Swagger UI is a dependency-free collection of HTML, Javascript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation and sandbox from a Swagger-compliant API. Because Swagger UI has no dependencies, you can host it in any server environment, or on your local machine.

What's Swagger?

The goal of Swagger™ is to define a standard, language-agnostic interface to REST APIs which allows both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the service without access to source code, documentation, or through network traffic inspection. When properly defined via Swagger, a consumer can understand and interact with the remote service with a minimal amount of implementation logic. Similar to what interfaces have done for lower-level programming, Swagger removes the guesswork in calling the service.

Check out Swagger-Spec for additional information about the Swagger project, including additional libraries with support for other languages and more.

Compatibility

The Swagger Specification has undergone 3 revisions since initial creation in 2010. Compatibility between swagger-ui and the Swagger specification is as follows:

Swagger UI Version Release Date Swagger Spec compatibility Notes Status
2.1.0-alpha.1 (in development) 2014-10-06 1.1, 1.2, 2.0 master Issues
2.0.24 2014-09-12 1.1, 1.2 tag v2.0.24
1.0.13 2013-03-08 1.1, 1.2 tag v1.0.13
1.0.1 2011-10-11 1.0, 1.1 tag v1.0.1

How to Use It

Download

You can use the swagger-ui code AS-IS! No need to build or recompile--just clone this repo and use the pre-built files in the dist folder. If you like swagger-ui as-is, stop here.

Build

You can rebuild swagger-ui on your own to tweak it or just so you can say you did. To do so, follow these steps:

  1. install handlebars
  2. npm install
  3. npm run-script build
  4. You should see the distribution under the dist folder. Open ./dist/index.html to launch Swagger UI in a browser

Use

Once you open the Swagger UI, it will load the Swagger Petstore service and show its APIs. You can enter your own server url and click explore to view the API.

Customize

You may choose to customize Swagger UI for your organization. Here is an overview of whats in its various directories:

  • dist: Contains a distribution which you can deploy on a server or load from your local machine.
  • bin: Contains files used by swagger-ui for its build/test. These are not required by the distribution.
  • lib: Contains javascript dependencies which swagger-ui depends on
  • node_modules: Contains node modules which swagger-ui uses for its development.
  • src - src/main/coffeescript: main code in CoffeeScript - src/main/templates: handlebars templates used to render swagger-ui - src/main/html: the html files, some images and css - src/main/javascript: some legacy javascript referenced by CoffeeScript code

SwaggerUi

To use swagger-ui you should take a look at the source of swagger-ui html page and customize it. This basically requires you to instantiate a SwaggerUi object and call load() on it as below:

    window.swaggerUi = new SwaggerUi({
        url:"http://petstore.swagger.wordnik.com/api/api-docs",
        dom_id:"swagger-ui-container"
    });

    window.swaggerUi.load();
  • url parameter should point to a resource listing url as per Swagger Spec
  • dom_id parameter is the the id of a dom element inside which SwaggerUi will put the user interface for swagger
  • booleanValues SwaggerUI renders boolean data types as a dropdown. By default it provides a 'true' and 'false' string as the possible choices. You can use this parameter to change the values in dropdown to be something else, for example 0 and 1 by setting booleanValues to new Array(0, 1)
  • docExpansion controls how the API listing is displayed. It can be set to 'none' (default), 'list' (shows operations for each resource), or 'full' (fully expanded: shows operations and their details)
  • sorter apply a sort to the API list. It can be 'alpha' (sort paths alphanumerically) or 'method' (sort operations by HTTP method). Default is the order returned by the server unchanged.
  • onComplete is a callback function parameter which can be passed to be notified of when SwaggerUI has completed rendering successfully.
  • onFailure is a callback function parameter which can be passed to be notified of when SwaggerUI encountered a failure was unable to render.
  • highlightSizeThreshold any size response below this threshold will be highlighted syntactically, attempting to highlight large responses can lead to browser hangs, not including a threshold will default to highlight all returned responses
  • All other parameters are explained in greater detail below

HTTP Methods and API Invocation

swagger-ui supports invocation of all HTTP methods APIs including GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, PATCH, OPTIONS. These are handled in the swagger-js project, please see there for specifics on their usage.

Header Parameters

Header params are supported through a pluggable mechanism in swagger-js. You can see the index.html for a sample of how to dynamically set headers:

// add a new ApiKeyAuthorization when the api-key changes in the ui.
$('#input_apiKey').change(function() {
  var key = $('#input_apiKey')[0].value;
  if(key && key.trim() != "") {
    window.authorizations.add("key", new ApiKeyAuthorization("api_key", key, "header"));
  }
})

This will add header api_key with value key on every call to the server. You can substitute query to send the values as a query param.

Custom Header Parameters - (For Basic auth etc)

If you have some header parameters which you need to send with every request, use the headers as below:

window.authorizations.add("key", new ApiKeyAuthorization("Authorization", "XXXX", "header"));

Note! You can pass multiple header params on a single request, just use unique names for them (key is used in the above example).

CORS Support

CORS is a technique to prevent websites from doing bad things with your personal data. Most browsers + javascript toolkits not only support CORS but enforce it, which has implications for your API server which supports Swagger.

You can read about CORS here: http://www.w3.org/TR/cors.

There are two cases where no action is needed for CORS support:

  1. swagger-ui is hosted on the same server as the application itself (same host and port).
  2. The application is located behind a proxy that enables the requires CORS headers. This may already be covered within your organization.

Otherwise, CORS support needs to be enabled for:

  1. Your Swagger docs. For Swagger 2.0 it's the swagger.json and any externally $refed docs, and for prior version it's the Resource Listing and API Declaration files.
  2. For the Try it now button to work, CORS needs to be enabled on your API endpoints as well.

Testing CORS Support

You can verify CORS support with one of three techniques:

  • Curl your API and inspect the headers. For instance:
$ curl -I "http://petstore.swagger.wordnik.com/api/api-docs"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 17:05:44 GMT
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, DELETE, PUT, PATCH, OPTIONS
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type, api_key, Authorization
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 0

This tells us that the petstore resource listing supports OPTIONS, and the following headers: Content-Type, api_key, Authorization.

  • Try swagger-ui from your file system and look at the debug console. If CORS is not enabled, you'll see something like this:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://sad.server.com/v2/api-docs. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'null' is therefore not allowed access.

Swagger-UI cannot easily show this error state.

  • Using the http://www.test-cors.org website. Keep in mind this will show a successful result even if Access-Control-Allow-Headers is not available, which is still required for Swagger-UI to function properly.

Enabling CORS

The method of enabling CORS depends on the server and/or framework you use to host your application. http://enable-cors.org provides information on how to enable CORS in some common web servers.

Other servers/frameworks may provide you information on how to enable it specifically in their use case.

CORS and Header Parameters

Swagger lets you easily send headers as parameters to requests. The name of these headers MUST be supported in your CORS configuration as well. From our example above:

Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type, api_key, Authorization

Only headers with these names will be allowed to be sent by Swagger-UI.

How to Improve It

Create your own fork of swagger-api/swagger-ui

To share your changes, submit a pull request.

Since the javascript files are compiled from coffeescript, please submit changes in the *.coffee files! We have to reject changes only in the .js files as they will be lost on each build of the ui.

License

Copyright 2011-2014 Reverb technologies, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.