PhoenixSwagger

PhoenixSwagger is the library that provides swagger integration to the phoenix web framework. The PhoenixSwagger generates Swagger specification for Phoenix controllers and validates the requests.

Installation

PhoenixSwagger provides phx.swagger.generate mix task for the swagger-ui json file generation that contains swagger specification that describes API of the phoenix application.

You just need to add the swagger DSL to your controllers and then run this one mix task to generate the json files.

To use PhoenixSwagger with a phoenix application just add it to your list of dependencies in the mix.exs file:

def deps do
  [
    {:phoenix_swagger, "~> 0.8"},
    {:ex_json_schema, "~> 0.5"} # optional
  ]
end

ex_json_schema is an optional dependency of phoenix_swagger required only for schema validation plug and test helper.

Now you can use phoenix_swagger to generate swagger-ui file for you application.

Usage

Add a config entry to your phoenix application specifying the output filename, router and endpoint modules used to generate the swagger file:

config :my_app, :phoenix_swagger,
  swagger_files: %{
    "priv/static/swagger.json" => [
      router: MyAppWeb.Router,     # phoenix routes will be converted to swagger paths
      endpoint: MyAppWeb.Endpoint  # (optional) endpoint config used to set host, port and https schemes.
    ]
  }

The outline of the swagger document should be returned from a swagger_info/0 function defined in your phoenix Router.ex module.

defmodule MyApp.Router do
  use MyApp.Web, :router

  pipeline :api do
    plug :accepts, ["json"]
  end

  scope "/api", MyApp do
    pipe_through :api
    resources "/users", UserController
  end

  def swagger_info do
    %{
      info: %{
        version: "1.0",
        title: "My App"
      }
    }
  end
end

The version and title are mandatory fields. By default the version will be 0.0.1 and the title will be <enter your title> if you do not provide swagger_info/0 function.

See the Swagger Object specification for details of other information that can be included. You can set the description of tags here for example:

%{
  info: %{..},
  tags: [%{name: "Users", description: "Operations about Users"}]
}

The swagger host value is built from your phoenix Endpoint url config.

# config.exs
config :my_app, MyApp.Web.Endpoint,
  url: [host: "localhost"], # "host": "localhost:4000" in generated swagger

If the host is configured to be set dynamically (either by {:systems, "VAR"} tuples or the :load_from_system_env flag), "the swagger host will be omitted. SwaggerUI will default to sending requests to the same host that is serving the swagger file.

# prod.exs
config :my_app, MyApp.Web.Endpoint,
  load_from_system_env: true, # Expects url host and port to be configured in Endpoint.init callback
  url: [host: {:system, "HOST"}, port: {:system, "PORT"}], # alternatively using tuples for configuration

Swagger Path DSL

PhoenixSwagger provides swagger_path/2 macro that generates swagger specification for the certain phoenix controller action.

Example:

use PhoenixSwagger

swagger_path :index do
  get "/posts"
  description "List blog posts"
  response 200, "Success"
end

def index(conn, _params) do
  posts = Repo.all(Post)
  render(conn, "index.json", posts: posts)
end

The swagger_path macro takes two parameters:

• Name of controller action;
• do block that contains the swagger specification for the controller action.

Within the do-end block, the DSL provided by the PhoenixSwagger.Path module can be used. The DSL always starts with one of the get, put, post, delete, head, options functions, followed by any functions with first argument being a PhoenixSwagger.Path.PathObject struct.

Example:

swagger_path :index do
  get "/api/v1/{org_id}/users"
  summary "Query for users"
  description "Query for users. This operation supports with paging and filtering"
  produces "application/json"
  tag "Users"
  operation_id "list_users"
  paging
  parameters do
    org_id :path, :string, "Organization ID", required: true
    zipcode :query, :string, "Address Zip Code", required: true, example: "90210"
    include :query, :array, "Related resources to include in response",
              items: [type: :string, enum: [:organisation, :favourites, :purchases]],
              collectionFormat: :csv
  end
  response 200, "OK", Schema.ref(:Users)
  response 400, "Client Error"
end

The swagger_path macro layer is just some syntactic sugar over regular elixir functions. Therefore it can easily be extended, for instance, if we want to reuse some common parameters.

For more details on this take a look at Reusing Swagger Parameters.

Swagger Schema DSL

Response schema definitions are placed in a swagger_definitions/0 function within each controller module. This function should return a map in the format of a swagger definitionsObject.

The swagger_schema/2 macro can be used to build a schema definition using the functions provided by the PhoenixSwagger.Schema module.

Example:

def swagger_definitions do
  %{
    User: swagger_schema do
      title "User"
      description "A user of the application"
      properties do
        name :string, "Users name", required: true
        id :string, "Unique identifier", required: true
        address :string, "Home address"
        preferences (Schema.new do
          properties do
            subscribe_to_mailing_list :boolean, "mailing list subscription", default: true
            send_special_offers :boolean, "special offers list subscription", default: true
          end
        end)
      end
      example %{
        name: "Joe",
        id: "123",
        address: "742 Evergreen Terrace"
      }
    end,
    Users: swagger_schema do
      title "Users"
      description "A collection of Users"
      type :array
      items Schema.ref(:User)
    end
  }
end

JSON:API Helpers

The PhoenixSwagger.JsonApi module provides helpers for constructing JSON:API schemas easily. PhoenixSwagger.JsonApi.resource/1 describes a JSON:API resource object. PhoenixSwagger.JsonApi.page/1 and PhoenixSwagger.JsonApi.single/1 can then be used to wrap a resource in a JSON:API top level object

Example:

use PhoenixSwagger

def swagger_definitions do
  %{
    UserResource: JsonApi.resource do
      description "A user that may have one or more supporter pages."
      attributes do
        phone :string, "Users phone number"
        full_name :string, "Full name"
        user_updated_at :string, "Last update timestamp UTC", format: "ISO-8601"
        user_created_at :string, "First created timestamp UTC"
        email :string, "Email", required: true
        birthday :string, "Birthday in YYYY-MM-DD format"
        address Schema.ref(:Address), "Users address"
      end
      link :self, "The link to this user resource"
      relationship :preferences
      relationship :posts, type: :has_many
    end,
    Users: JsonApi.page(:UserResource),
    User: JsonApi.single(:UserResource)
  }
end

swagger_path :index do
  get "/api/v1/users"
  paging size: "page[size]", number: "page[number]"
  response 200, "OK", Schema.ref(:Users)
end

Generate Swagger File

After adding swagger spec to you controllers, run the phx.swagger.generate mix task for the swagger-ui json file generation into directory with phoenix application:

mix phx.swagger.generate

If multiple swagger files need to be generated, add additional entries to the project config:

config :my_app, :phoenix_swagger,
  swagger_files: %{
    "booking-api.json" => [router: MyApp.BookingRouter],
    "reports-api.json" => [router: MyApp.ReportsRouter],
    "admin-api.json" => [router: MyApp.AdminRouter]
  }

For more informantion, you can find swagger specification here.

Validator

Besides generator of swagger schemas, the phoenix_swagger provides validator of input parameters of resources.

Suppose you have following resource in your schema:

...
...
"/history": {
    "get": {
        "parameters": [
        {
            "name": "offset",
            "in": "query",
            "type": "integer",
            "format": "int32",
            "description": "Offset the list of returned results by this amount. Default is zero."
        },
        {
            "name": "limit",
            "in": "query",
            "type": "integer",
            "format": "int32",
            "description": "Integer of items to retrieve. Default is 5, maximum is 100."
        }]
     }
}
...
...

The phoenix_swagger provides PhoenixSwagger.Validator.parse_swagger_schema/1 API to load a swagger schema by the given path or list of paths. This API should be called during application startup to parse/load a swagger schema.

After this, the PhoenixSwagger.Validator.validate/2 can be used to validate resources.

For example:

iex(1)> Validator.validate("/history", %{"limit" => "10"})
{:error,"Type mismatch. Expected Integer but got String.", "#/limit"}

iex(2)> Validator.validate("/history", %{"limit" => 10, "offset" => 100})
:ok

Besides validate/2 API, the phoenix_swagger validator can be used via Plug to validate intput parameters of your controllers.

Just add PhoenixSwagger.Plug.Validate plug to your router:

pipeline :api do
  plug :accepts, ["json"]
  plug PhoenixSwagger.Plug.Validate
end

scope "/api", MyApp do
  pipe_through :api
  post "/users", UsersController, :send
end

The current minimal version of elixir should be 1.3 and in this case you must add phoenix_swagger application to the application list in your mix.exs.

Test Response Validator

PhoenixSwagger also includes a testing helper module PhoenixSwagger.SchemaTest to conveniently assert that responses from Phoenix controller actions conform to your swagger schema.

In your controller test files add the PhoenixSwagger.SchemaTest mixin with the path to your swagger spec:

defmodule YourApp.UserControllerTest do
  use YourApp.ConnCase, async: true
  use PhoenixSwagger.SchemaTest, "priv/static/swagger.json"

Then in each test, the context will contain the swagger_schema, which can be used with the validate_resp_schema function:

test "shows chosen resource", %{conn: conn, swagger_schema: schema} do
  user = Repo.insert! struct(User, @valid_attrs)
  response =
    conn
    |> get(user_path(conn, :show, user))
    |> validate_resp_schema(schema, "UserResponse")
    |> json_response(200)
end

Swagger UI

PhoenixSwagger includes a plug with all static assets required to host swagger-ui from your Phoenix application.

Usage:

Generate a swagger file in your applications priv/static dir:

config :my_app, :phoenix_swagger,
  swagger_files: %{
    "priv/static/swagger.json" => [router: MyAppWeb.Router]
  }

mix phx.swagger.generate

Add a swagger scope to your router, and forward all requests to SwaggerUI

    scope "/api/swagger" do
      forward "/", PhoenixSwagger.Plug.SwaggerUI, otp_app: :myapp, swagger_file: "swagger.json"
    end

Run the server with mix phoenix.server and browse to localhost:4000/api/swagger, Swagger-ui should be shown with your swagger spec loaded.

See the examples/simple project for a runnable example with swagger-ui.