Auto-generate swagger docs if you only use auto-discovery to discover DB tables - swagger

Question

I am wondering if we can still auto-generate Swagger API documentation for our Loopback API server if we only use the auto-discovery features outlined here:
https://docs.strongloop.com/display/public/LB/Discovering+models+from+relational+databases
does anyone know if it's possible? If we use autodiscovery, I somehow doubt that any .json files for our models will get written to our server project, and that will make generating docs difficult.

Answer 1

Turns out yes it is possible, and the way to do that is to write the models-x.json files out for all models with a script, and then start the server after the script has finished!
https://docs.strongloop.com/display/public/LB/Database+discovery+API
this is standard practice for auto-discovery, here is my code that accomplishes this:
const loopback = require('loopback');
const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');
const async = require('async');
var ds = loopback.createDataSource('postgresql', {
'host': 'localhost',
'port': 5432,
'database': 'foo',
'username': 'bar',
'password': 'baz'
});
ds.discoverModelDefinitions(function (err, models) {
async.each(models, function (def, cb) {
ds.discoverSchema(def.name, null, function (err, schema) {
if (err) {
console.error(err.stack || err);
cb(err);
}
else {
fs.writeFile(path.resolve(__dirname, 'server/models', def.name + '.json'),
JSON.stringify(schema), {}, cb);
}
});
}, function (err) {
if (err) {
console.log(err.stack || err);
process.exit(1);
}
else {
console.log(' => Successfully wrote model data.');
process.exit(0);
}
});
});