OpenApi: how to describe error codes and messages? - swagger

I'd like to provide a series of custom codes and message for my error 400 but can't find any way to do so.
Ideally something like:
Error:
type: object
enum:
- [E01, 'Error1']
- [E02, 'Error2']
And so on

So I'm not sure that enums here can help you.
If you take a look over official documentation Enums are just strings, not object https://swagger.io/docs/specification/data-models/enums/ .
So my proposal is to use :
ErrorType:
type: object
properties:
code:
type: integer
name:
type: string
example: # Sample object
code: 10
name: Custom Error
Error:
type: object
properties:
errors:
oneOf:
- $ref '#/ErrorType'
- etc...
or directly without properties
Error:
type: object
oneOf:
- $ref '#/ErrorType'
- etc...
You can take a look for more examples on the official page https://swagger.io/docs/specification/data-models/oneof-anyof-allof-not/

You can check out how Twitter has described it with $oneOf ( https://api.twitter.com/labs/2/openapi.json ) but unfortunately this convention is not easy nor supported by code generation tools like openapi-generator.
Until OpenApi supports enum descriptions (proposal is pending), one of the easiest ways are to:
define enum with all possible error codes
in the top level description: section of the spec define an inner section (with markdown notation #Error codes) that lists all error codes along with description.
Automated tool should check if the enum and description is consistent.

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Multiple examples for object properties swagger

I am trying to add multiple examples for an Object property.
The Swagger-Ui and Editor version that I am using are
'{"swaggerEditor":"3.6.31/g10642b3c-dirty","swaggerUi":{"version":"3.23.0","gitRevision":"g23d7260f","gitDirty":true,"buildTimestamp":"Sat, 29 Jun 2019 19:42:59 GMT","machine":"jenins-swagger-oss"}}'
Based on OpenAPI doc, this version of swagger UI and editor have support for multiple examples but I still see this error:
Structural error at components.schemas.MainObject.allOf.3.properties.partitionProperty
should NOT have additional properties
additionalProperty: examples
Jump to line 3016
This is how I have added the examples in the property:
MainObject:
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/MainObjectLite'
- type: object
description: foobar.
readOnly: true
required:
- fooRequired
properties:
fooRequired:
type: string
description: system only field used for table data indexing
partitionProperty:
type: string
description: foobar
examples:
sampleExample:
value: 2016-03-04T03:00:00
summary: sample partition
OpenAPI 3.0
Multiple examples are only supported at the media type level and are not supported inside schemas. Schemas and properties can only have a single example, e.g.
partitionProperty:
type: string
example: '2016-03-04T03:00:00'
In other words, this won't work:
MainObject:
type: object
properties:
..
examples: # <--- Won't work
minimal:
summary: Minimal example
value:
foo: bar
full:
summary: Example with all properties
value:
foo: bar
baz: xyzzy
If you want multiple examples, you need to use request examples or response examples instead:
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/MainObject'
examples:
minimal:
summary: Minimal example
value:
foo: bar
full:
summary: Example with all properties
value:
foo: bar
baz: xyzzy
OpenAPI 3.1
OAS 3.1 uses a newer version of JSON Schema which supports multiple examples in schemas and properties. Unlike media type examples which is a map of named Example Objects, schema-level and property-level examples is a plain list of example values.
MyObject:
type: object
properties:
prop1:
type: string
# Property-level examples
examples:
- foo
- bar
prop2:
type: integer
# Object-level examples
examples:
- prop1: hello
prop2: 5
- prop1: world
prop2: 0

OpenApi 3.0 Enum values structure

I am using OpenApi 3.0 and I have encountered a requirement with enum with some extra fields.
Example:
enum:
- name: a
x-field-uid: 1
description: some description
- name: b
x-field-uid: 2
description: some description
- name: c
x-field-uid: 3
description: some description
Though I did not find anything similar pattern from the openapi spec, but I tried using the above format for enums and openapi spec validation doesn't through any error.
I wonder if this can be used or not.

Swagger API errors: reference could not be resolved

I'm trying to specify my API data types in swagger 2.0 using yaml, but I'm getting a reference error (see error details at the bottom).
I'm using a nested structure, where the parent object (InvoiceConfigData) contains an array of child objects (ProviderVariantsData). This is the hierarchy of yaml files:
.api/swagger/cfg/InvoiceConfigData.yaml:
required:
- providerName
- providerVariants
properties:
providerName:
type: string
providerVariants:
type: array
items:
$ref: "#/definitions/ProviderVariantsData"
.api/swagger/cfg/ProviderVariantsData.yaml:
properties:
displayName:
type: string
cif:
type: string
availableTemplates:
type: array
items:
type: string
.api/swagger/definitions.yaml:
ProviderVariantsData:
$ref: ./cfg/ProviderVariantsData.yaml
InvoiceConfigData:
$ref: ./cfg/InvoiceConfigData.yaml
But I get the following errors:
API Errors:
#/definitions/InvoiceConfigData/$ref: Reference could not be resolved: ./cfg/InvoiceConfigData.yaml
#/definitions/ProviderVariantsData/$ref: Reference could not be resolved: ./cfg/ProviderVariantsData.yaml
API Warnings:
#/definitions/ProviderVariantsData: Definition is defined but is not used: #/definitions/ProviderVariantsData
There's something wrong in the way I reference the ProviderVariantsData, but I can't find what's causing the error. I've tried to flip the order in "definitions.yaml" (InvoiceConfigData above ProviderVariansData) without success.
swagger 2.0 doesn't support multiple YAML files.

Swagger: Add description with ref

I want to add a description to an object property that his definition is referenced. Something like that:
newCreditCard:
type: object
properties:
billingPhone:
description: Phone number of the card holder
$ref: "#/definitions/PhoneNumber"
But the editor warns that the description property will be skipped:
Extra JSON Reference properties will be ignored: description
I have found a less elegant workaround that works for the editor, but not for the Swagger UI (not sure that is may due to the recent update to 3.0.2 version of the Swagger UI)
newCreditCard:
type: object
properties:
billingPhone:
description: Phone number of the card holder
allOf:
- $ref: "#/definitions/PhoneNumber"
How do you do it in your Swaggers specification?
Thanks for the help!
If you add anything to the same level of $ref it will be ignored .
json $ref definition https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-pbryan-zyp-json-ref-03#section-3
correct way is to provide the description in the referenced object.
You could simply move the description property to the definition of PhoneNumber. Your original post does not show how you have defined PhoneNumber, but this snippet validates without warnings:
definitions:
phoneNumber:
type: string
description: Phone number of the card holder
newCreditCard:
type: object
properties:
billingPhone:
$ref: "#/definitions/phoneNumber"
If this answer is not what you are looking for, please restate the question. We need to know what you are trying to accomplish.
although it is not according to JSON standards.
if you are using Swashbuckle to generate your swagger.
i took advantage over the "Extensions" property of schema.
and managed to create a swagger JSON, with $ref and extended properties.
var refSchema = new OpenApiSchema
{
//Reference = new OpenApiReference { ExternalResource = referenceLink, Type = ReferenceType.Link }, this wont work and omit all your other properties
Extensions = new Dictionary<string, IOpenApiExtension>
{
{ "$ref" , new OpenApiString(referenceLink) } // adding ref as extension cause according to JSON standards $ref shouldnt have any other properties
},
Description = prop.Value.Description,
ReadOnly = prop.Value.ReadOnly,
Required = prop.Value.Required,
Type = prop.Value.Type,
Example = prop.Value.Example,
};
For anyone using Swashbuckle with ASP.NET, you can use the following code to have the $ref construct put under the allOf (just like the :
// do this wherever you are calling AddSwaggerGen()
ArgBuilder.Services.AddSwaggerGen(opts => {
opts.UseAllOfToExtendReferenceSchemas(); // add this line.
});
Now if you have a model with two properties of the same type, the individual descriptions for each field will show up in Swagger UI (e.g. below, both FooHeader and BarHeader are properties of type HttpHeader and their descriptions show up):

SWAGGER: Dereferencing $ref from body parameter

Taking the petstore example,
I am trying to dereference the $Ref in the /pet -> put operation which is currently:
schema
$ref: #definitions/Pet
I am trying to resolve this but unable to get this text out from the json file.
This is what I have:
BodyParameter bp = (BodyParameter) param;
System.out.println(((RefModel) bp.getSchema()).get$ref());
I thought this would give me the above text out which I could later map with a definition Map and resolve it but got the following error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: io.swagger.models.ModelImpl cannot be cast to io.swagger.models.RefModel
Would anyone know of a way to extract this string out from a body parameter and in general since the schema returns a Type Model?
I do not find a proper documentation source for the swagger parser , swagger inflector projects so hunting around through the source code itself.
you would do the following:
Model model = bp.getSchema();
if(model instanceof RefModel) {
RefModel ref = (RefModel) model;
String simpleRef = ref.getSimpleRef();
Model concreteModel = swagger.getDefinitions().get(simpleRef);
}
You should confirm that concreteModel is a ModelImpl but in the petstore case, it will be.

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