SwaggerUI used to make WordPress REST API endpoint have a interactive UI, so we can check our API endpoint directly from the website it self.
- Support for
GET
,POST
,PUT
,PATCH
andDELETE
request methods - Support for Auth Basic authorization method
- Choose which namespace API that will be used on the SwaggerUI
- Your website should not block support of WordPress default REST API
- Works for WordPress REST API Version 2
- PHP Version should be greater than 5.4
- Clone this repository
- Run
npm install
- Run
npm run build
- Copy all files into your
wp-content/plugins/wp-api-swaggerui
folder
- Log in and navigate to Plugins > Add New.
- Type “WP API SwaggerUI” into the Search and hit Enter.
- Locate the WP API SwaggerUI plugin in the list of search results and click Install Now.
- Once installed, click the Activate link.
After installing and activating the plugin, from your WordPress admin dashboard, access settings and then you will be able to see the Swagger option. Click that to access the Swagger Setting page.
From the Swagger Setting page, choose between the API Basepath options displayed on the select menu, then click on the Save Changes button. Accessing the Docs URL you will be able to see the Swagger UI configured for the chosen endpoint.
You can see Swagger Docs URL accessing:
To customize how your created endpoints are shown at Swagger, here is an example with all the possible arguments you can add to your route:
register_rest_route(
'pet',
'/(?P<petId>\d+)',
[
'methods' => 'GET',
'callback' => $service->get_callback(),
'summary' => 'Find pet by ID',
'description' => 'Returns a single pet',
'produces' => ['application/json', 'application/xml'],
'responses' => [
'200' => [
'description' => 'successful operation',
'schema' => [
'type' => 'object',
'required' => ['name', 'photoUrls'],
'properties' => [
'id' => [
'type' => 'integer',
'format' => 'int64',
],
'name' => [
'type' => 'string',
'example' => 'doggie',
],
'status' => [
'type' => 'string',
'description' => 'pet status in the store',
'enum' => ['available', 'pending', 'sold']
]
],
'example' => [
'id' => 1,
'name' => 'doggie',
'status' => ' available'
],
'xml' => [
'name' => 'Pet'
]
]
],
'400' => [
'description' => 'Invalid ID supplied'
],
'404' => [
'description' => 'Pet not found'
]
],
'args' => [
'petId' => [
'in' => 'path',
'description' => 'ID of pet to return',
'required' => true,
'type' => 'integer',
'format' => 'int64'
]
],
'permission_callback' => '__return_true'
]
)
register_rest_route(
'user',
'/',
[
'methods' => 'POST',
'callback' => $service->get_callback(),
'summary' => 'Create user',
'description' => 'This can only be done by the logged in user.',
'consumes' => ['application/json'],
'produces' => ['application/json', 'application/xml'],
'responses' => [
'default' => [
'description' => 'successful operation',
]
],
'args' => [
'body' => [
'in' => 'body',
'description' => 'Created user object',
'required' => true,
'type' => 'object',
'schema' => [
'type' => 'object',
'properties' => [
'id' => [
'type' => 'integer',
'format' => 'int64',
],
'username' => [
'type' => 'string'
],
'email' => [
'type' => 'string'
],
'password' => [
'type' => 'string'
],
],
'example' => [
'id' => 0,
'username' => 'string',
'email' => 'string',
'password' => 'string',
]
]
]
],
'permission_callback' => '__return_true'
]
)
These examples were based on the defaults presented at Swagger Editor
If you need help undesrtadning any of of the parameters used on this documentation, please refer to Swagger Documentation.
Here is some useful links: