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Design-driven apis with swagger 2.0 and express.
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# swaggerize-express

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`swaggerize-express` is a design-driven approach to building RESTful apis with [Swagger](http://swagger.io) and [Express](http://expressjs.com).

`swaggerize-express` provides the following features:

- API schema validation.
- Routes based on the Swagger document.
- API documentation route.
- Input validation.

See also:
- [swaggerize-routes](https://github.com/krakenjs/swaggerize-routes)
- [swaggerize-hapi](https://github.com/krakenjs/swaggerize-hapi)
- [generator-swaggerize](https://www.npmjs.org/package/generator-swaggerize)

### Why "Design Driven"

There are already a number of modules that help build RESTful APIs for node with swagger. However,
these modules tend to focus on building the documentation or specification as a side effect of writing
the application business logic.

`swaggerize-express` begins with the swagger document first. This facilitates writing APIs that are easier to design, review, and test.

### Quick Start with a Generator

This guide will let you go from an `api.json` to a service project in no time flat.

First install `generator-swaggerize` (and `yo` if you haven't already):

```bash
$ npm install -g yo
$ npm install -g generator-swaggerize
```

Now run the generator.

```bash
$ mkdir petstore && cd $_
$ yo swaggerize
```

Follow the prompts (note: make sure to choose `express` as your framework choice).

When asked for a swagger document, you can try this one:

```
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wordnik/swagger-spec/master/examples/v2.0/json/petstore.json
```

You now have a working api and can use something like [Swagger UI](https://github.com/wordnik/swagger-ui) to explore it.

### Manual Usage

```javascript
var swaggerize = require('swaggerize-express');

app.use(swaggerize({
api: require('./api.json'),
docspath: '/api-docs',
handlers: './handlers'
}));
```

Options:

- `api` - a valid Swagger 2.0 document.
- `docspath` - the path to expose api docs for swagger-ui, etc. Defaults to `/`.
- `handlers` - either a directory structure for route handlers or a premade object (see *Handlers Object* below).
- `express` - express settings overrides.

After using this middleware, a new property will be available on the `app` called `swagger`, containing the following properties:

- `api` - the api document.
- `routes` - the route definitions based on the api document.

Example:

```javascript
var http = require('http');
var express = require('express');
var swaggerize = require('swaggerize-express');

app = express();

var server = http.createServer(app);

app.use(swaggerize({
api: require('./api.json'),
docspath: '/api-docs',
handlers: './handlers'
}));

server.listen(port, 'localhost', function () {
app.swagger.api.host = server.address().address + ':' + server.address().port;
});
```

### Mount Path

Api `path` values will be prefixed with the swagger document's `basePath` value.

### Handlers Directory

The `options.handlers` option specifies a directory to scan for handlers. These handlers are bound to the api `paths` defined in the swagger document.

```
handlers
|--foo
| |--bar.js
|--foo.js
|--baz.js
```

Will route as:

```
foo.js => /foo
foo/bar.js => /foo/bar
baz.js => /baz
```

### Path Parameters

The file and directory names in the handlers directory can also represent path parameters.

For example, to represent the path `/users/{id}`:

```shell
handlers
|--users
| |--{id}.js
```

This works with directory names as well:

```shell
handlers
|--users
| |--{id}.js
| |--{id}
| |--foo.js
```

To represent `/users/{id}/foo`.

### Handlers File

Each provided javascript file should export an object containing functions with HTTP verbs as keys.

Example:

```javascript
module.exports = {
get: function (req, res) { ... },
put: function (req, res) { ... },
...
}
```

### Handler Middleware

Handlers can also specify middleware chains by providing an array of handler functions under the verb:

```javascript
module.exports = {
get: [
function m1(req, res, next) { ... },
function m2(req, res, next) { ... },
function handler(req, res) { ... }
],
...
}
```

### Handlers Object

The directory generation will yield this object, but it can be provided directly as `options.handlers`.

Note that if you are programatically constructing a handlers obj this way, you must namespace HTTP verbs with `$` to
avoid conflicts with path names. These keys should also be *lowercase*.

Example:

```javascript
{
'foo': {
'$get': function (req, res) { ... },
'bar': {
'$get': function (req, res) { ... },
'$post': function (req, res) { ... }
}
}
...
}
```

Handler keys in files do *not* have to be namespaced in this way.

### Security Middleware

If a security definition exists for a path in the swagger API definition, and an appropriate authorize function exists (defined using
`x-authorize` in the `securityDefinitions` as per [swaggerize-routes](https://github.com/krakenjs/swaggerize-routes#security-object)),
then it will be used as middleware for that path.

In addition, a `requiredScopes` property will be injected onto the `request` object to check against.

For example:

Swagger API definition:

```json
.
.
.

//A route with security object.
"security": [
{
"petstore_auth": [
"write_pets",
"read_pets"
]
}
]
.
.
.
//securityDefinitions
"securityDefinitions": {
"petstore_auth": {
"x-authorize": "lib/auth_oauth.js", // This path has to be relative to the project root.
"scopes": {
"write_pets": "modify pets in your account",
"read_pets": "read your pets"
}
}
},
```

Sample `x-authorize` code - lib/auth_oauth.js :

```javascript
//x-authorize: auth_oauth.js
function authorize(req, res, next) {
validate(req, function (error, availablescopes) {
/*
* `req.requiredScopes` is set by the `swaggerize-express` module to help
* with the scope and security validation.
*
*/
if (!error) {
for (var i = 0; i < req.requiredScopes.length; i++) {
if (availablescopes.indexOf(req.requiredScopes[i]) > -1) {
next();
return;
}
}

error = new Error('Do not have the required scopes.');
error.status = 403;

next(error);
return;
}

next(error);
});
}
```

The context for `authorize` will be bound to the security definition, such that:

```javascript
function authorize(req, res, next) {
this.authorizationUrl; //from securityDefinition for this route's type.
//...
}
```