JSON Schema Support
JSON Schema is a popular vocabulary to describe the shape of JSON documents. A variant of JSON Schema is also used in OpenAPI specifications.
API Platform provides an infrastructure to generate JSON Schemas for any resource, represented in any format (including JSON-LD). The generated schema can be used with libraries such as react-json-schema-form to build forms for the documented resources, or to be used for validation.
Generating a JSON Schema
To export the schema corresponding to an API Resource, run the following command:
$ docker-compose exec php bin/console api:json-schema:generate 'App\Entity\Book'
To see all options available, try:
$ docker-compose exec php bin/console help api:json-schema:generate
Generating a JSON Schema Programmatically
To generate JSON Schemas programmatically, use the api_platform.json_schema.schema_factory
service.
Testing
API Platform provides a PHPUnit assertion to test if a response is valid according to a given Schema: assertMatchesJsonSchema()
.
Refer to the testing documentation for more details.
The Distribution: Create Powerful APIs with Ease
The API Component
- General Design Considerations
- GraphQL Support
- Enabling GraphQL
- Changing Location of the GraphQL Endpoint
- GraphiQL
- GraphQL Playground
- Modifying or Disabling the Default IDE
- Request with application/graphql Content-Type
- Operations
- Queries
- Mutations
- Subscriptions
- Workflow of the Resolvers
- Events
- Filters
- Pagination
- Security
- Serialization Groups
- Exception and Error
- Name Conversion
- Custom Types
- Modify the Extracted Types
- Changing the Serialization Context Dynamically
- Export the Schema in SDL
- Handling File Upload
- Change Default Descriptions
- Filters
- Doctrine ORM and MongoDB ODM Filters
- Elasticsearch Filters
- Serializer Filters
- Creating Custom Filters
- ApiFilter Annotation
- The Serialization Process
- Overall Process
- Available Serializers
- The Serialization Context, Groups and Relations
- Using Serialization Groups
- Using Serialization Groups per Operation
- Embedding Relations
- Calculated Field
- Changing the Serialization Context Dynamically
- Changing the Serialization Context on a Per-item Basis
- Name Conversion
- Decorating a Serializer and Adding Extra Data
- Entity Identifier Case
- Embedding the JSON-LD Context
- Collection Relation
- Overriding Default Order
- OpenAPI Specification Support (formerly Swagger)
- Using the OpenAPI Command
- Overriding the OpenAPI Specification
- Using the OpenAPI and Swagger Contexts
- Changing the Name of a Definition
- Changing Operations in the OpenAPI Documentation
- Changing the Location of Swagger UI
- Using a custom Asset Package in Swagger UI
- Overriding the UI Template
- Compatibility Layer with Amazon API Gateway
- OAuth
- Info Object
- Pushing Related Resources Using HTTP/2
- Using External Vocabularies
- NelmioApiDocBundle Integration
- Bootstraping the core library
- Configuration
The Schema Generator Component
- Configuration
- Customizing PHP Namespaces
- Forcing a Field Range
- Forcing a Field Cardinality
- Forcing a Relation Table Name
- Forcing (or Disabling) a Class Parent
- Forcing a Class to be Abstract
- Forcing a Nullable Property
- Forcing a Unique Property
- Making a Property Read-Only
- Making a Property Write-Only
- Forcing a Property to be in a Serialization Group
- Forcing an Embeddable Class to be Embedded
- Author PHPDoc
- Disabling Generators and Creating Custom Ones
- Skipping Accessor Method Generation
- Disabling the id Generator
- Generating UUIDs
- User submitted UUIDs
- Generating Custom IDs
- Disabling Usage of Doctrine Collections
- Changing the Field Visibility
- Generating @Assert\Type Annotations
- Forcing Doctrine Inheritance Mapping Annotation
- Interfaces and Doctrine Resolve Target Entity Listener
- Custom Schemas
- Checking GoodRelation Compatibility
- PHP File Header
- Full Configuration Reference