Swagger extension

Introduction

This extension provides a preview integration with Swagger including:

• automated generation of Swagger descriptor in JSON
• introspection of JAX-RS API based applications
• introspection of Restlet API based applications

Additional work is required to:

• parse a Swagger descriptor in JSON to set up an application

In this scenario, we will add Swagger support to a Restlet based API then display its Swagger-UI. You can download this code and follow the README to get a sample application and try it out.

Usage

Dependencies

Add org.restlet.ext.swagger.jar (provided in the “lib” directory of restlet framework) to your classpath.

Make sure you are using the version 2.3 of Restlet and java 1.7.

Configuration

Make your application class extend org.restlet.ext.swagger.SwaggerApplication instead of org.restlet.Application.

By default, the Swagger documentation will be available on the path “/api-docs” of your API. If you want to change this path, you can specify it manually in the method createInboundRoot:

public Restlet createInboundRoot() {
    // Router for the API's resources
    Router apiRouter = createApiRouter();
    attachSwaggerSpecificationRestlet(apiRouter, "/docs");
    // Protect the set of resources
    ChallengeAuthenticator guard = createApiGuard(apiRouter);
    return guard;
}

Here, you specify that the Swagger definition will be provided on the path “/docs”.

Customization

If you want to display a definition edited manually, the SwaggerApplication can get it directly from files. To do that, you just have to override the method getSwaggerSpecificationRestlet() of class SwaggerApplication and make it return a custom Restlet.

See sample implementation below:

@Override
public SwaggerSpecificationRestlet getSwaggerSpecificationRestlet(
        Context context) {
    return new SwaggerSpecificationRestlet(getContext()) {
        @Override
        public Representation getApiDeclaration(String category) {
            JacksonRepresentation<ApiDeclaration> result = new JacksonRepresentation<ApiDeclaration>(
                    new FileRepresentation("/path/to/my/repo/" + category,
                            MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON),
                        ApiDeclaration.class);
            return result;
        }
        @Override
        public Representation getResourceListing() {
            JacksonRepresentation<ApiDeclaration> result = new JacksonRepresentation<ApiDeclaration>(
                    new FileRepresentation("/path/to/my/repo/api-docs",
                            MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON),
                    ApiDeclaration.class);
            return result;
        }
    };
}

Swagger-UI

To display the Swagger-UI of your API, go on the page https://petstore.swagger.io/, enter the URL of your Swagger definition and click on explore.

You can also clone/fork the project and embed it.

For additional details, please consult the Javadocs.