Swagger UI is part of the Swagger project. The Swagger project allows you to produce, visualize and consume your OWN RESTful services. No proxy or 3rd party services required. Do it your own way.

Swagger UI is a dependency-free collection of HTML, Javascript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation and sandbox from a Swagger-compliant API. Because Swagger UI has no dependencies, you can host it in any server environment, or on your local machine.

The goal of Swagger™ is to define a standard, language-agnostic interface to REST APIs which allows both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the service without access to source code, documentation, or through network traffic inspection. When properly defined via Swagger, a consumer can understand and interact with the remote service with a minimal amount of implementation logic. Similar to what interfaces have done for lower-level programming, Swagger removes the guesswork in calling the service.

Check out Swagger-Spec for additional information about the Swagger project, including additional libraries with support for other languages and more.

The OpenAPI Specification has undergone 4 revisions since initial creation in 2010. Compatibility between swagger-ui and the OpenAPI Specification is as follows:

You can use the swagger-ui code AS-IS! No need to build or recompile--just clone this repo and use the pre-built files in the dist folder. If you like swagger-ui as-is, stop here.

Swagger UI works in all evergreen desktop browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox). Internet Explorer support is version 8 (IE8) and above.

You can rebuild swagger-ui on your own to tweak it or just so you can say you did. To do so, follow these steps:

1. npm install
2. npm run build
3. You should see the distribution under the dist folder. Open ./dist/index.html to launch Swagger UI in a browser

Use npm run serve to make a new build, watch for changes, and serve the result at https://localhost:8080/.

To build swagger-ui using a docker container:

docker build -t swagger-ui-builder .
docker run -p 80:8080 swagger-ui-builder

This will start Swagger UI at https://localhost.

Once you open the Swagger UI, it will load the Swagger Petstore service and show its APIs. You can enter your own server url and click explore to view the API.

You may choose to customize Swagger UI for your organization. Here is an overview of what's in its various directories:

• dist: Contains a distribution which you can deploy on a server or load from your local machine.
• dist/lang: The swagger localization
• lib: Contains javascript dependencies which swagger-ui depends on
• node_modules: Contains node modules which swagger-ui uses for its development.
• src
• src/main/templates: handlebars templates used to render swagger-ui
• src/main/html: the html files, some images and css
• src/main/javascript: main code

To use swagger-ui you should take a look at the source of swagger-ui html page and customize it. This basically requires you to instantiate a SwaggerUi object and call load() on it as below:

var swaggerUi = new SwaggerUi({
  url:"https://petstore.swagger.io/v2/swagger.json",
  dom_id:"swagger-ui-container"
});

swaggerUi.load();

• All other parameters are explained in greater detail below

swagger-ui supports invocation of all HTTP methods APIs including GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, PATCH, OPTIONS. These are handled in the swagger-js project, please see there for specifics on their usage.

Header params are supported through a pluggable mechanism in swagger-js. You can see the index.html for a sample of how to dynamically set headers:

// add a new SwaggerClient.ApiKeyAuthorization when the api-key changes in the ui.
$('#input_apiKey').change(function() {
  var key = $('#input_apiKey')[0].value;
  if(key && key.trim() != "") {
    swaggerUi.api.clientAuthorizations.add("auth_name", new SwaggerClient.ApiKeyAuthorization("api_key", key, "header"));
  }
})

This will add the header api_key with value key on calls that have the auth_name security scheme as part of their swaggerDefinitions. You can substitute query to send the values as a query param.

If you have some header parameters which you need to send with every request, use the headers as below:

swaggerUi.api.clientAuthorizations.add("key", new SwaggerClient.ApiKeyAuthorization("Authorization", "XXXX", "header"));

Note! You can pass multiple header params on a single request, just use unique names for them (key is used in the above example).

The localization files are in the lang directory. Note that language files and translator is not included in SwaggerUI by default. You need to add them manually.

To enable translation you should append next two lines in your Swagger's index.html (or another entry point you use)

<script src='lang/translator.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<script src='lang/en.js' type='text/javascript'></script>

The first line script is a translator and the second one is your language lexemes.

If you wish to append support for new language you just need to create lang/your_lang.js and fill it like it's done in existing files.

To append new lexemex for translation you should do two things:

1. Add lexeme into the language file. Example of new line: "new sentence":"translation of new sentence".
2. Mark this lexeme in source html with attribute data-sw-translate. Example of changed source:

<anyHtmlTag data-sw-translate>new sentence</anyHtmlTag>
or <anyHtmlTag data-sw-translate value='new sentence'/>

.

At this moment only inner html, title-attribute and value-attribute are going to be translated.

CORS is a technique to prevent websites from doing bad things with your personal data. Most browsers + javascript toolkits not only support CORS but enforce it, which has implications for your API server which supports Swagger.

You can read about CORS here: https://www.w3.org/TR/cors.

There are two cases where no action is needed for CORS support:

1. swagger-ui is hosted on the same server as the application itself (same host and port).
2. The application is located behind a proxy that enables the required CORS headers. This may already be covered within your organization.

Otherwise, CORS support needs to be enabled for:

1. Your Swagger docs. For Swagger 2.0 it's the swagger.json and any externally $refed docs, and for prior version it's the Resource Listing and API Declaration files.
2. For the Try it now button to work, CORS needs to be enabled on your API endpoints as well.

You can verify CORS support with one of three techniques:

• Curl your API and inspect the headers. For instance:

$ curl -I "https://petstore.swagger.io/v2/swagger.json"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 23:05:44 GMT
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, DELETE, PUT, PATCH, OPTIONS
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type, api_key, Authorization
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 0

This tells us that the petstore resource listing supports OPTIONS, and the following headers: Content-Type, api_key, Authorization.

• Try swagger-ui from your file system and look at the debug console. If CORS is not enabled, you'll see something like this:

XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://sad.server.com/v2/api-docs. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'null' is therefore not allowed access.

Swagger-UI cannot easily show this error state.

• Using the https://www.test-cors.org website. Keep in mind this will show a successful result even if Access-Control-Allow-Headers is not available, which is still required for Swagger-UI to function properly.

The method of enabling CORS depends on the server and/or framework you use to host your application. https://enable-cors.org provides information on how to enable CORS in some common web servers.

Other servers/frameworks may provide you information on how to enable it specifically in their use case.

Swagger lets you easily send headers as parameters to requests. The name of these headers MUST be supported in your CORS configuration as well. From our example above:

Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type, api_key, Authorization

Only headers with these names will be allowed to be sent by Swagger-UI.

Create your own fork of swagger-api/swagger-ui

To share your changes, submit a pull request.

Please see releases for change log.

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