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A Go project for handling OpenAPI files. We target the latest OpenAPI version (currently 3), but the project contains support for older OpenAPI versions too.
Licensed under the MIT License.
Contributors and users
The project has received pull requests from many people. Thanks to everyone!
Here's some projects that depend on kin-openapi:
Alternatives
Structure
- openapi2 (godoc)
- Support for OpenAPI 2 files, including serialization, deserialization, and validation.
 
- openapi2conv (godoc)
- Converts OpenAPI 2 files into OpenAPI 3 files.
 
- openapi3 (godoc)
- Support for OpenAPI 3 files, including serialization, deserialization, and validation.
 
- openapi3filter (godoc)
- Validates HTTP requests and responses
- Provides a gorilla/mux router for OpenAPI operations
 
- openapi3gen (godoc)
- Generates *openapi3.Schemavalues for Go types.
 
Some recipes
Loading OpenAPI document
Use openapi3.Loader, which resolves all references:
doc, err := openapi3.NewLoader().LoadFromFile("swagger.json")
Getting OpenAPI operation that matches request
loader := openapi3.NewLoader()
doc, _ := loader.LoadFromData([]byte(`...`))
_ := doc.Validate(loader.Context)
router, _ := gorillamux.NewRouter(doc)
route, pathParams, _ := router.FindRoute(httpRequest)
// Do something with route.Operation
Validating HTTP requests/responses
package main
import (
	"bytes"
	"context"
	"encoding/json"
	"log"
	"net/http"
	"github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/openapi3"
	"github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/openapi3filter"
	legacyrouter "github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/routers/legacy"
)
func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()
	loader := openapi3.Loader{Context: ctx}
	doc, _ := loader.LoadFromFile("openapi3_spec.json")
	_ = doc.Validate(ctx)
	router, _ := legacyrouter.NewRouter(doc)
	httpReq, _ := http.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/items", nil)
	// Find route
	route, pathParams, _ := router.FindRoute(httpReq)
	// Validate request
	requestValidationInput := &openapi3filter.RequestValidationInput{
		Request:    httpReq,
		PathParams: pathParams,
		Route:      route,
	}
	if err := openapi3filter.ValidateRequest(ctx, requestValidationInput); err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	var (
		respStatus      = 200
		respContentType = "application/json"
		respBody        = bytes.NewBufferString(`{}`)
	)
	log.Println("Response:", respStatus)
	responseValidationInput := &openapi3filter.ResponseValidationInput{
		RequestValidationInput: requestValidationInput,
		Status:                 respStatus,
		Header:                 http.Header{"Content-Type": []string{respContentType}},
	}
	if respBody != nil {
		data, _ := json.Marshal(respBody)
		responseValidationInput.SetBodyBytes(data)
	}
	// Validate response.
	if err := openapi3filter.ValidateResponse(ctx, responseValidationInput); err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}
Custom content type for body of HTTP request/response
By default, the library parses a body of HTTP request and response
if it has one of the next content types: "text/plain" or "application/json".
To support other content types you must register decoders for them:
func main() {
	// ...
	// Register a body's decoder for content type "application/xml".
	openapi3filter.RegisterBodyDecoder("application/xml", xmlBodyDecoder)
	// Now you can validate HTTP request that contains a body with content type "application/xml".
	requestValidationInput := &openapi3filter.RequestValidationInput{
		Request:    httpReq,
		PathParams: pathParams,
		Route:      route,
	}
	if err := openapi3filter.ValidateRequest(ctx, requestValidationInput); err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	// ...
	// And you can validate HTTP response that contains a body with content type "application/xml".
	if err := openapi3filter.ValidateResponse(ctx, responseValidationInput); err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}
func xmlBodyDecoder(body io.Reader, h http.Header, schema *openapi3.SchemaRef, encFn openapi3filter.EncodingFn) (decoded interface{}, err error) {
	// Decode body to a primitive, []inteface{}, or map[string]interface{}.
}
Custom function to check uniqueness of array items
By defaut, the library check unique items by below predefined function
func isSliceOfUniqueItems(xs []interface{}) bool {
	s := len(xs)
	m := make(map[string]struct{}, s)
	for _, x := range xs {
		key, _ := json.Marshal(&x)
		m[string(key)] = struct{}{}
	}
	return s == len(m)
}
In the predefined function using json.Marshal to generate a string can
be used as a map key which is to support check the uniqueness of an array
when the array items are objects or arrays. You can register
you own function according to your input data to get better performance:
func main() {
	// ...
	// Register a customized function used to check uniqueness of array.
	openapi3.RegisterArrayUniqueItemsChecker(arrayUniqueItemsChecker)
	// ... other validate codes
}
func arrayUniqueItemsChecker(items []interface{}) bool {
	// Check the uniqueness of the input slice
}
Sub-v0 breaking API changes
v0.84.0
- The prototype of openapi3gen.NewSchemaRefForValuechanged:
- It no longer returns a map but that is still accessible under the field (*Generator).SchemaRefs.
- It now takes in an additional argument (basically doc.Components.Schemas) which gets written to so$refcycles can be properly handled.
 
v0.61.0
- Renamed openapi2.Swaggertoopenapi2.T.
- Renamed openapi2conv.FromV3Swaggertoopenapi2conv.FromV3.
- Renamed openapi2conv.ToV3Swaggertoopenapi2conv.ToV3.
- Renamed openapi3.LoadSwaggerFromDatatoopenapi3.LoadFromData.
- Renamed openapi3.LoadSwaggerFromDataWithPathtoopenapi3.LoadFromDataWithPath.
- Renamed openapi3.LoadSwaggerFromFiletoopenapi3.LoadFromFile.
- Renamed openapi3.LoadSwaggerFromURItoopenapi3.LoadFromURI.
- Renamed openapi3.NewSwaggerLoadertoopenapi3.NewLoader.
- Renamed openapi3.Swaggertoopenapi3.T.
- Renamed openapi3.SwaggerLoadertoopenapi3.Loader.
- Renamed openapi3filter.ValidationHandler.SwaggerFiletoopenapi3filter.ValidationHandler.File.
- Renamed routers.Route.Swaggertorouters.Route.Spec.
v0.51.0
- Type openapi3filter.Routemoved torouters(andRoute.Handlerwas dropped. See https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/issues/329)
- Type openapi3filter.RouteErrormoved torouters(so didErrPathNotFoundandErrMethodNotAllowedwhich are nowRouteErrors)
- Routers' FindRoute(...)method now takes only one argument:*http.Request
- getkin/kin-openapi/openapi3filter.Routermoved to- getkin/kin-openapi/routers/legacy
- openapi3filter.NewRouter()and its related- WithSwaggerFromFile(string),- WithSwagger(*openapi3.Swagger),- AddSwaggerFromFile(string)and- AddSwagger(*openapi3.Swagger)are all replaced with a single- <router package>.NewRouter(*openapi3.Swagger)- 
- NOTE: the NewRouter(doc)call now requires that the user ensuresdocis valid (doc.Validate() != nil). This used to be asserted.
 
v0.47.0
Field (*openapi3.SwaggerLoader).LoadSwaggerFromURIFunc of type func(*openapi3.SwaggerLoader, *url.URL) (*openapi3.Swagger, error) was removed after the addition of the field (*openapi3.SwaggerLoader).ReadFromURIFunc of type func(*openapi3.SwaggerLoader, *url.URL) ([]byte, error).