README

Swagger Ajax Client

Create XHR clients for Swagger API Specifications.

Given a schema object, this tool returns an api object which can be used to interact with the API server described by the schema. The schema can easily be generated using fetch-swagger-schema).

Usage

To use, include one of these files in your application:

swagger-ajax-client.js
swagger-ajax-client.js.min, a minified version (source map)

You may also bower install swagger-ajax-client to install using bower. Once you've included the script, you can use the swaggerAjaxClient function to generate the api using a given schema object.

Schemas can be generated using fetch-swagger-schema.

Examples

First, a simple example. Let's say you saved a schema json file, then loaded it into your app as the schema variable. Now you can call operations on the API by using swaggerAjaxClient:

// Assuming the variable schema exists
var api = swaggerAjaxClient(schema);

// for apiKey authorization use: api.auth('my-token')
// for basicAuth use: api.auth('username', 'password')

api.pet.getPetById(id).then(function(pet){
  console.log(pet);
});

Here's a more advanced case in which we're leveraging promises to implement a 'getOrCreate' method, which doesn't actually exist within the api:


var api = swaggerAjaxClient(schema);

function getOrCreate(id, name){
    return api.pet.getPetById(id).catch(function(response){
        // If pet doesn't exist, create a new one.
        if(response.status === 404){
            var pet = {id: id, name: name};
            return api.pet.addPet(pet).then(function(){
                return pet;
            });
        }

        // Unknown error
        console.error(response.error.toString());
    });
}

getOrCreate(23, 'bob').then(function(pet){
    console.log('Got pet:', pet);
}, function(error){
    console.error(error.toString());
});

API

`api = swaggerAjaxClient(schema)`

schemaObject - A json object describing the schema (generated by fetch-swagger-schema).
api - An object which can be used as the api for the given schema. The first-level objects are the resources within the schema and the second-level functions are the operations which can be performed on those resources.

`api.<resource>`

A map of all the resources as defined in the schema to their operation handler (e.g. api.pet).

`responsePromise = api.<resource>.<operationHandler>(data, options)`

This is the actual operation function to initiate a request to the API endpoint (e.g., api.pet.getPetById).

The operation handler takes two parameters:

data - A map of the operation data parameters. If the operation only has one parameter, the value may be used directly (i.e. api.pet.getPetById(1, callback) is the same as api.pet.getPetById({petId: 1}, callback)).
options - A map of the options to use when calling the operation (see below for full list).

The response promise is an ES6 promise. A HTTP response in the 200s range will result in a resolved promise and anything else will result in a rejected promises. A resolved promise value is whatever the server responded with (JSON is automatically parsed). A rejected promise value is a map with a status, data, and error properties, where the status is the HTTP status, data is the response body from the server, and error is a JavaScript error (if any occurred).

Here's an example:

// use of .then(successHandler, failHandler)
responsePromise.then(function(response){
    console.log('successful response:', response);
}, function(response){
    console.log('request failed due to error:', response.error);
});

Developing

After installing nodejs execute the following:

git clone https://github.com/signalfx/swagger-ajax-client.git
cd swagger-ajax-client
npm install
npm run dev

The build engine will test and build everything, start a server hosting the example folder on localhost:3000, and watch for any changes and rebuild when nescessary.

To generate minified files in dist:

npm run dist

Usage no npm install needed!