# Swagger / Open API Support

API Platform natively support the Open API (formerly Swagger) API documentation format. It also integrates a customized version of Swagger UI, a nice tool to display the API documentation in a user friendly way.

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# Overriding the Swagger Documentation

Symfony allows to decorate services, here we need to decorate api_platform.swagger.normalizer.documentation.

In the following example, we will see how to override the title of the Swagger documentation and add a custom filter for the GET operation of /foos path

# app/config/services.yml
services:
    'AppBundle\Swagger\SwaggerDecorator':
        decorates: 'api_platform.swagger.normalizer.documentation'
        arguments: [ '@AppBundle\Swagger\SwaggerDecorator.inner' ]
        autoconfigure: false

<?php
// src/AppBundle/Swagger/SwaggerDecorator.php

namespace AppBundle\Swagger;

use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\NormalizerInterface;

final class SwaggerDecorator implements NormalizerInterface
{
    private $decorated;

    public function __construct(NormalizerInterface $decorated)
    {
        $this->decorated = $decorated;
    }

    public function normalize($object, $format = null, array $context = [])
    {
        $docs = $this->decorated->normalize($object, $format, $context);

        $customDefinition = [
            'name' => 'fields',
            'definition' => 'Fields to remove of the outpout',
            'default' => 'id',
            'in' => 'query',
        ];


	// e.g. add a custom parameter
	$docs['paths']['/foos']['get']['parameters'][] = $customDefinition;

	// Override title
	$docs['info']['title'] = 'My Api Foo';

        return $docs;
    }

    public function supportsNormalization($data, $format = null)
    {
        return $this->decorated->supportsNormalization($data, $format);
    }
}

# Using the Swagger Context

Sometimes you may want to have additional information included in your Swagger documentation. The following configuration will provide additional context to your Swagger definitions:

<?php
// src/AppBundle/Entity/Product.php

namespace AppBundle\Entity;

use ApiPlatform\Core\Annotation\ApiResource;
use ApiPlatform\Core\Annotation\ApiProperty;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

/**
 * @ApiResource
 * @ORM\Entity
 */
class Product // The class name will be used to name exposed resources
{
    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
     */
    public $id;

    /**
     * @param string $name A name property - this description will be avaliable in the API documentation too.
     *
     * @ORM\Column
     * @Assert\NotBlank
     *
     * @ApiProperty(
     *     attributes={
     *         "swagger_context"={
     *             "type"="string",
     *             "enum"={"one", "two"},
     *             "example"="one"          
     *         }
     *     }
     * )
     */
    public $name;

    /**
     * @ORM\Column
     * @Assert\DateTime
     *
     * @ApiProperty(
     *     attributes={
     *         "swagger_context"={"type"="string", "format"="date-time"}
     *     }
     * )
     */
    public $timestamp;
}

Or in YAML:

# src/AppBundle/Resources/config/api_resources/resources.yml
resources:
    AppBundle\Entity\Product:
      properties:
        name:
          attributes:
            swagger_context:
              type: string
              enum: ['one', 'two']
              example: one
        timestamp:
          attributes:
            swagger_context:
              type: string
              format: date-time

Will produce the following Swagger documentation:

{
  "swagger": "2.0",
  "basePath": "/",

  "definitions": {
    "Product": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "This is a product.",
      "properties": {
        "id": {
          "type": "integer",
          "readOnly": true
        },
        "name": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "This is a name.",
          "enum": ["one", "two"],
          "example": "one"
        },
        "timestamp": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "date-time"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

# Changing the Swagger UI Location

Sometimes you may want to have the API at one location, and the Swagger UI at a different location. This can be done by disabling the Swagger UI from the API Platform configuration file and manually adding the Swagger UI controller.

# Disabling Swagger UI

# app/config/config.yml

api_platform:
    # ...
    enable_swagger_ui: false

# Manually Registering the Swagger UI Controller

# app/config/routing.yml
swagger_ui:
    path: /docs
    controller: api_platform.swagger.action.ui

Change /docs to your desired URI you wish Swagger to be accessible on.

# Enable Swagger doc for API Gateway

AWS API Gateway supports Swagger 2.0 partially, but it requires some changes. Fortunately, API Platform provides a way to be compatible with both Swagger 2.0 & API Gateway.

To enable API Gateway compatibility on your Swagger doc, add api_gateway=true query parameter:

http://www.example.com/docs.json?api_gateway=true

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