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Dancer::Plugin::Swagger(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Dancer::Plugin::Swagger(3)

Dancer::Plugin::Swagger - create Swagger documentation of the app REST interface

version 0.2.0

    package MyApp;

    use Dancer;
    use Dancer::Plugin::Swagger;

    our $VERSION = "0.1";

    get '/choreograph/:name' => sub { ... };

    1;

This plugin provides tools to create and access a Swagger <http://swagger.io/> specification file for a Dancer REST web service.

Overview of "Dancer::Plugin::Swagger"'s features:

Can create a /swagger.json REST specification file.
Can auto-discover routes and add them to the swagger file.
Can provide a Swagger UI version of the swagger documentation.

    plugins:
        Swagger:
           main_api_module: MyApp
           show_ui: 1
           ui_url: /doc
           ui_dir: /path/to/files
           auto_discover_skip:
            - /swagger.json
            - qr#^/doc/#

If not provided explicitly, the Swagger document's title and version will be set to the abstract and version of this module.

Defaults to the first module to import Dancer::Plugin::Swagger.

If "true", a route will be created for the Swagger UI (see <http://swagger.io/swagger-ui/>).

Defaults to "true".

Path of the swagger ui route. Will also be the prefix for all the CSS/JS dependencies of the page.

Defaults to "/doc".

Filesystem path to the directory holding the assets for the Swagger UI page.

Defaults to a copy of the Swagger UI code bundled with the Dancer::Plugin::Swagger distribution.

List of urls that should not be added to the Swagger document by "swagger_auto_discover". If an url begins with "qr", it will be compiled as a regular expression.

Defauls to "/swagger.json" and, if "show_ui" is "true", all the urls under "ui_url".

If set to "true", calls to "swagger_response" will verify if a schema is defined for the response, and if so validate against it. JSON::Schema::AsType is used for the validation (and this required if this option is used).

Defaults to "false".

If set to "true", dies if a call to "swagger_response" doesn't find a schema for its response.

Defaults to "false".

    swagger_path {
        description => 'Returns info about a judge',
    },
    get '/judge/:judge_name' => sub {
        ...;
    };

Registers a route as a swagger path item in the swagger document.

%args is optional.

The $description is optional as well, and can also be defined as part of the %args.

    # equivalent to the main example
    swagger_path 'Returns info about a judge',
    get '/judge/:judge_name' => sub {
        ...;
    };

If the $description spans many lines, it will be left-trimmed.

    swagger_path q{ 
        Returns info about a judge.

        Some more documentation can go here.

            And this will be seen as a performatted block
            by swagger.
    }, 
    get '/judge/:judge_name' => sub {
        ...;
    };

Supported arguments

method
The HTTP method (GET, POST, etc) for the path item.

Defaults to the route's method.

path
The url for the path item.

Defaults to the route's path.

description
The path item's description.
tags
Optional arrayref of tags assigned to the path.
parameters
List of parameters for the path item. Must be an arrayref or a hashref.

Route parameters are automatically populated. E.g.,

    swagger_path
    get '/judge/:judge_name' => { ... };
    

is equivalent to

    swagger_path {
        parameters => [
            { name => 'judge_name', in => 'path', required => 1, type => 'string' },
        ] 
    },
    get '/judge/:judge_name' => { ... };
    

If the parameters are passed as a hashref, the keys are the names of the parameters, and they will appear in the swagger document following their alphabetical order.

If the parameters are passed as an arrayref, they will appear in the document in the order in which they are passed. Additionally, each parameter can be given as a hashref, or can be a "name => arguments" pair.

In both format, for the key/value pairs, a string value is considered to be the "description" of the parameter.

Finally, if not specified explicitly, the "in" argument of a parameter defaults to "query", and its type to "string".

    parameters => [
        { name => 'bar', in => 'path', required => 1, type => 'string' },
        { name => 'foo', in => 'query', type => 'string', description => 'yadah' },
    ],

    # equivalent arrayref with mixed pairs/non-pairs

    parameters => [
        { name => 'bar', in => 'path', required => 1, type => 'string' },
        foo => { in => 'query', type => 'string', description => 'yadah' },
    ],

    # equivalent hashref format 
    
    parameters => {
        bar => { in => 'path', required => 1, type => 'string' },
        foo => { in => 'query', type => 'string', description => 'yadah' },
    },

    # equivalent, using defaults
    parameters => {
        bar => { in => 'path', required => 1 },
        foo => 'yadah',
    },
    
responses
Possible responses from the path. Must be a hashref.

    swagger_path {
        responses => {
            default => { description => 'The judge information' }
        },
    },
    get '/judge/:judge_name' => { ... };
    

If the key "example" is given (instead of "examples" as defined by the Swagger specs), and the serializer used by the application is Dancer::Serializer::JSON or Dancer::Serializer::YAML, the example will be expanded to have the right content-type key.

    swagger_path {
        responses => {
            default => { example => { fullname => 'Mary Ann Murphy' } }
        },
    },
    get '/judge/:judge_name' => { ... };

    # equivalent to

    swagger_path {
        responses => {
            default => { examples => { 'application/json' => { fullname => 'Mary Ann Murphy' } } }
        },
    },
    get '/judge/:judge_name' => { ... };
    

The special key "template" will not appear in the Swagger doc, but will be used by the "swagger_template" plugin keyword.

    swagger_path {
        responses => {
            404 => { template => sub { +{ error => "judge '$_[0]' not found" } }  
        },
    },
    get '/judge/:judge_name' => {  
        my $name = param('judge_name');
        return swagger_template 404, $name unless in_db($name);
        ...;
    };

Calls the template for the $code response, passing it $args. If $code is numerical, also set the response's status to that value.

Populates the Swagger document with information of all the routes of the application.

Accepts an optional "skip" parameter that takes an arrayref of routes that shouldn't be added to the Swagger document. The routes can be specified as-is, or via regular expressions. If no skip list is given, defaults to the c<auto_discover_skip> configuration value.

    swagger_auto_discover skip => [ '/swagger.json', qr#^/doc/# ];

The information of a route won't be altered if it's already present in the document.

If a route has path parameters, they will be automatically added as such in the "parameters" section.

Routes defined as regexes are skipped, as there is no clean way to automatically make them look nice.

        # will be picked up
    get '/user' => ...;

        # ditto, as '/user/{user_id}'
    get '/user/:user_id => ...;

        # won't be picked up
    get qr#/user/(\d+)# => ...;

Note that routes defined after "swagger_auto_discover" has been called won't be added to the Swagger document. Typically, you'll want "swagger_auto_discover" to be called at the very end of your module. Alternatively, "swagger_auto_discover" can be called more than once safely -- which can be useful if an application creates routes dynamically.

Adds a schema (or more) to the definition section of the Swagger document.

    swagger_definition 'Judge' => {
        type => 'object',
        required => [ 'fullname' ],
        properties => {
            fullname => { type => 'string' },
            seasons => { type => 'array', items => { type => 'integer' } },
        }
    };

The function returns the reference to the definition that can be then used where schemas are used.

    my $Judge = swagger_definition 'Judge' => { ... };
    # $Judge is now the hashref '{ '$ref' => '#/definitions/Judge' }'
    
    # later on...
    swagger_path {
        responses => {
            default => { schema => $Judge },
        },
    },
    get '/judge/:name' => sub { ... };

See the examples/ directory of the distribution for a working example.

<http://swagger.io/|Swagger>

Yanick Champoux <yanick@cpan.org>

This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Yanick Champoux.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

2016-04-02 perl v5.32.1

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