Serverless Auto Swagger

This plugin allows you to automatically generate a swagger endpoint, describing your application endpoints. This is built from your existing serverless config and typescript definitions, reducing the duplication of work.

Install

yarn add --dev serverless-auto-swagger
# or
npm install -D serverless-auto-swagger

Add the following plugin to your serverless.yml or serverless.ts:

plugins:
  - serverless-auto-swagger

plugins: ['serverless-auto-swagger'];

NOTE: This plugin must come before any transform plugins (i.e. serverless-webpack or serverless-plugin-typescript), and must come before serverless-offline if included.

Usage

This plugin is designed to work with vanilla Serverless Framework. All you need to do is add this plugin to your plugin list and it will generate the swagger file and add the endpoints required. When you deploy your API, your new swagger UI will be available at https://{your-url-domain}/swagger.

You can also run sls generate-swagger if you want to generate the swagger file without deploying the application.

Config Options

All config options are optional. Defaults are shown in the table below.

custom:
    autoswagger:
        title: 'string'
        apiType: 'http' | 'httpApi'
        generateSwaggerOnDeploy: true | false
        typefiles: ['./src/types/typefile1.d.ts', './src/subfolder/helper.d.ts']
        swaggerFiles: ['./doc/endpointFromPlugin.json', './doc/iCannotPutThisInHttpEvent.json', './doc/aDefinitionWithoutTypescript.json']
        swaggerPath: 'string'
        apiKeyHeaders: ['Authorization', 'anyOtherName']
        useStage: true | false
        basePath: '/string'
        host: 'http://some-host'
        schemes: ['http', 'https', 'ws', 'wss']
        excludeStages: ['production', 'anyOtherStage']
        includeStages: undefined

Option	Description	Default	Example
generateSwaggerOnDeploy	Boolean which indicates whether to generate a new swagger file on deployment	true
deploySwagger	Boolean which indicates whether to deploy the swagger file on deployment	true
title	String to overwrite the project title with a custom one	Serverless service name
typefiles	Array of strings which defines where to find the typescript types to use for the request and response bodies	['./src/types/api-types.d.ts']
swaggerFiles	Array of string which will merge custom json OpenApi 2.0 files to the generated swagger	[]
swaggerPath	String for customize swagger path. Your new swagger UI will be available at https://{your-url-domain}/{swaggerPath}	swagger	my-swagger => https://{your-url-domain}/my-swagger
apiType	API type for which your Swagger UI and Swagger JSON lambdas should be deployed. Options are http and httpApi	httpApi
apiKeyHeaders	Array of strings used to define API keys used in auth headers	[]	apiKeyHeaders: ['Authorization', 'x-api-key']
useStage	Boolean to either use current stage in beginning of path or not	false	true => dev/swagger for stage dev
basePath	String that can be prepended to every request. Should include leading /	-	/some-base => http://localhost/some-base/my-endpoint
host	String that overrides the host. With this you can set your custom domain for your application endpoints	-	http://some-host => {http://some-host}/my-endpoint
schemes	Array (containing one of http, https, ws, or wss) for specifying schemes	Scheme used to serve the API specification (reflecting Swagger's behavior)
includeStages	Array of strings that contains stages in which Swagger UI and Swagger JSON lambdas should be deployed in. Leave undefined to include all	undefined
excludeStages	Array of strings that contains stages in which Swagger UI and Swagger JSON lambdas should not be deployed in. This holds more priority than includeStages	[]

Adding more details

The default swagger file from vanilla Serverless framework will have the correct paths and methods but no details about the requests or responses.

API Summary and Details

The optional attributes summary and description can be used to describe each HTTP request in Swagger.

swaggerTags is an optional array that can be used to group HTTP requests with a collapsible name (i.e. grouping two endpoints GET /dogs and POST /dogs together). If not specified, all HTTP requests will be grouped under default.

http: {
    summary: 'This is a cool API',
    description: 'Cool API description is here',
    swaggerTags: ['Dogs']
}

Adding Data Types

This plugin uses typescript types to generate the data types for the endpoints. By default, it pulls the types from src/types/api-types.d.ts.

You can then assign these typescript definitions to requests as bodyType on the http or https config, or to the response as seen just below.

Responses

You can also add expected responses to each of the http endpoint events. This is an object that contains the response code with some example details:

responseData: {
    // response with description and response body
    200: {
        description: 'this went well',
        bodyType: 'helloPostResponse',
    },

    // response with just a description
    400: {
        description: 'failed Post',
    },
    // shorthand for just a description
    502: 'server error',
}

Post request expected body

When you create a POST or PUT endpoint, you expect to receive a specific structure of data as the body of the request.

You can do that by adding a bodyType to the http event:

http: {
    path: 'hello',
    method: 'post',
    cors: true,
    bodyType: 'helloPostBody',
}

Query String Parameters

If you want to specify the query string parameters on an endpoint you can do this by adding an object of queryStringParameters to the event (original I know). This has two required properties of required and type as well as an optional description.

http: {
    path: 'goodbye',
    method: 'get',
    queryStringParameters: {
        bob: {
            required: true,
            type: 'string',
            description: 'bob',
        },
        count: {
            required: false,
            type: 'integer',
        },
    },
},

If no queryStringParameters are defined, the plugin will do its best to generate headers based on any Serverless request.parameters.querystrings that are defined.

Multi-Valued Query String Parameters

If you use multi-value query string parameters (array), then you must specify that your type is array and specify your data type (string or integer) in arrayItemsType

http: {
    path: 'goodbye',
    method: 'get',
    queryStringParameters: {
        bob: {
            required: true,
            type: 'array',
            arrayItemsType : 'string',
            description: 'bob',
        },
        count: {
            required: false,
            type: 'array',
            arrayItemsType : 'integer',
        },
    },
},

Header Params

Works the same way as queryStringParameters, but for headers.

To use it, just define it under headerParameters:

http: {
    path: 'goodbye',
    method: 'get',
    headerParameters: {
        bob: {
            required: true,
            type: 'string',
            description: 'bob',
        },
        count: {
            required: false,
            type: 'integer',
        },
    },
},

If no headerParameters are defined, the plugin will do its best to generate headers based on any Serverless request.parameters.headers that are defined.

Path Parameters

Path parameters are resolved first by looking at request.parameters.paths, and then by resolving any additional parameters in the http event path (i.e. /{id}).

Exclude an endpoint

You can exclude some endpoints from the swagger generation by adding exclude to the http event:

http: {
    path: 'hello',
    method: 'post',
    exclude: true,
}

MIME Types

You can specify the MIME types by adding consumes and produces to the http event. Default for both is ['application/json']

http: {
    path: 'hello',
    method: 'post',
    consumes: ['application/json', 'application/pdf'],
    produces: ['application/json', 'application/pdf'],
}

with Serverless Offline

In the plugin list, you must list serverless-auto-swagger before the serverless-offline plugin. If you don't, you won't get the required endpoints added to your local endpoints.

To use serverless v2, you must run serverless-offline in backwards compatibility mode with serverless offline start.