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1. Introduction

springdoc-openapi java library helps to automate the generation of API documentation using spring boot projects. springdoc-openapi works by examining an application at runtime to infer API semantics based on spring configurations, class structure and various annotations.

Automatically generates documentation in JSON/YAML and HTML format APIs. This documentation can be completed by comments using swagger-api annotations.

This library supports:

  • OpenAPI 3

  • Spring-boot v3 (Java 17 & Jakarta EE 9)

  • JSR-303, specifically for @NotNull, @Min, @Max, and @Size.

  • Swagger-ui

  • OAuth 2

  • GraalVM native images

The following video introduces the Library:

spring.io conference

This is a community-based project, not maintained by the Spring Framework Contributors (Pivotal).

2. Getting Started

For the integration between spring-boot and swagger-ui, add the library to the list of your project dependencies (No additional configuration is needed)

   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springdoc</groupId>
      <artifactId>springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui</artifactId>
      <version>2.4.0</version>
   </dependency>

This will automatically deploy swagger-ui to a spring-boot application:

  • Documentation will be available in HTML format, using the official swagger-ui jars

  • The Swagger UI page will then be available at http://server:port/context-path/swagger-ui.html and the OpenAPI description will be available at the following url for json format: http://server:port/context-path/v3/api-docs

    • server: The server name or IP

    • port: The server port

    • context-path: The context path of the application

  • Documentation can be available in yaml format as well, on the following path : /v3/api-docs.yaml

For custom path of the swagger documentation in HTML format, add a custom springdoc property, in your spring-boot configuration file: .
# swagger-ui custom path
springdoc.swagger-ui.path=/swagger-ui.html

3. Springdoc-openapi Modules

3.1. General overview

Architecture

3.2. Spring WebMvc support

  • Documentation will be available at the following url for json format: http://server:port/context-path/v3/api-docs

    • server: The server name or IP

    • port: The server port

    • context-path: The context path of the application

  • Documentation will be available in yaml format as well, on the following path : /v3/api-docs.yaml

  • Add the library to the list of your project dependencies. (No additional configuration is needed)

   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springdoc</groupId>
      <artifactId>springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-api</artifactId>
      <version>2.4.0</version>
   </dependency>
This dependency is relevant if you want to generate the OpenAPI description without using the swagger-ui.
For custom path of the OpenAPI documentation in Json format, add a custom springdoc property, in your spring-boot configuration file:
# /api-docs endpoint custom path
springdoc.api-docs.path=/api-docs

3.3. Spring WebFlux support

  • Documentation can be available in yaml format as well, on the following path : /v3/api-docs.yaml

  • Add the library to the list of your project dependencies (No additional configuration is needed)

   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springdoc</groupId>
      <artifactId>springdoc-openapi-starter-webflux-api</artifactId>
      <version>2.4.0</version>
   </dependency>

3.4. Spring Hateoas support

The support for Spring Hateoas is available using the dependency springdoc-openapi-hateoas.

The projects that use spring-boot-starter-hateoas should use:

  • springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-api if they need only the access to the OpenAPI endpoints

  • OR springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui, if they need also the access to the swagger-ui

3.5. Spring Data Rest support

springdoc-openapi project supports spring-boot-starter-data-rest types like: @RepositoryRestResource and QuerydslPredicate annotations.

The projects that use spring-boot-starter-data-rest should use:

  • springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-api if they need only the access to the OpenAPI endpoints

  • OR springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui, if they need also the access to the swagger-ui

3.6. Spring Security support

springdoc-openapi helps ignoring @AuthenticationPrincipal type in case it is used on REST Controllers.

springdoc-openapi supports also exposing Oauth2 endpoints of spring-security-oauth2-authorization-server.

The projects that use spring-boot-starter-security or spring-security-oauth2-authorization-server should use:

  • springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-api if they depend on spring-boot-starter-web and they only need the access to the OpenAPI endpoints.

  • OR springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui, if they depend on spring-boot-starter-web and they also need the access to the swagger-ui.

  • OR springdoc-openapi-starter-webflux-api if they depend on spring-boot-starter-webflux and they only the access to the OpenAPI endpoints.

  • OR springdoc-openapi-starter-webflux-ui, if they depend on spring-boot-starter-webflux and they also need the access to the swagger-ui.

3.7. Actuator support

  • In order to display spring-boot-actuator endpoints, simply add the following property:

springdoc.show-actuator=true

Starting from the release 1.5.1, it will be possible to expose the swagger-ui and the openapi endpoints on actuator port.

The actuator management port has to be different from the application port.

To expose the swagger-ui, on the management port, you should set

springdoc.use-management-port=true
# This property enables the openapi and swagger-ui endpoints to be exposed beneath the actuator base path.
management.endpoints.web.exposure.include=openapi, swagger-ui

Once enabled, you should also be able to see the springdoc-openapi endpoints under: (host and port depends on your settings) - http://serverName:managementPort/actuator

For example, if you have the following settings:

Two endpoints will be available:

  1. REST API that holdes the OpenAPI definition:

    • http://serverName:managementPort/actuator/openapi

  2. An Endpoint, that routes to the swagger-ui:

    • http://serverName:managementPort/actuator/swagger-ui

management.server.port=9090

For the example, you should also be able to see the springdoc-openapi endpoints:

  • http://serverName:9090/actuator

  • http://serverName:9090/actuator/swagger-ui

  • http://serverName:9090/actuator/openapi

All the path springdoc-openapi properties are not applicable when springdoc.use-management-port=true.

If you want to reach the application endpoints, from the swagger-ui deployed beneath the actuator base path, using a different port from your application, CORS for your endpoints on your application level should be enabled.

Additionally, it is also possible to combine this property, with the existing property to display the actuator endpoints in the swagger-ui.

springdoc.show-actuator=true

Once enabled: - A dedicated group for the actuator endpoints will be by default added. - If no group is defined for the application, a default one will be added.

The swagger-ui will be then accessible through the actuator port:

  • http://serverName:managementPort/actuator/swagger-ui

If the management port is different from the application port and springdoc.use-management-port is not defined but springdoc.show-actuator is set to true:

  • The swagger-ui will be then accessible through the application port. For example: http://serverName:applicationPort/swagger-ui.html

  • A dedicated group for the actuator endpoints will be by default added.

  • If no group is defined for the application, a default one will be added.

If you want to reach the actuator endpoints for this case (different port from your application), CORS for your actuator endpoints should be enabled.

Note: The naming of these new endpoints beneath the actuator base path cannot be customized for now.

3.8. Spring Cloud Function Web support

spring-cloud-function-web exposes Java Function as REST endpoint automatically. * Since version v1.6.3, the support of functional endpoints has been added.

  • These starters will display the OpenAPI description of the spring-cloud-function-web endpoints.

    • If you are using spring-web, simply add the springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui dependency.

    • If you are using spring-webflux, simply add the springdoc-openapi-starter-webflux-ui dependency.

The customisation of the output can be achieved programmatically through OpenApiCustomizer or with the annotations: @RouterOperations and @RouterOperation. For annotation usage, you have: * @RouterOperation: It can be used alone, if the customisation is related to a single REST API. When using @RouterOperation, it’s not mandatory to fill the path

  • @RouterOperation, contains the @Operation annotation. The @Operation annotation can also be placed on the bean method level if the property beanMethod is declared.

Don’t forget to set operationId which is mandatory.
@Bean
@RouterOperation(operation = @Operation(description = "Say hello", operationId = "hello", tags = "persons",
        responses = @ApiResponse(responseCode = "200", content = @Content(schema = @Schema(implementation = PersonDTO.class)))))
public Supplier<PersonDTO> helloSupplier() {
    return () -> new PersonDTO();
}
  • @RouterOperations: This annotation should be used to describe the multiple REST APIs exposed by spring-cloud-function-web. When using RouterOperations, it’s mandatory to fill the method property.

  • A @RouterOperations, contains many @RouterOperation.

@Bean
@RouterOperations({
        @RouterOperation(method = RequestMethod.GET, operation = @Operation(description = "Say hello GET", operationId = "lowercaseGET", tags = "persons")),
        @RouterOperation(method = RequestMethod.POST, operation = @Operation(description = "Say hello POST", operationId = "lowercasePOST", tags = "positions"))
})
public Function<Flux<String>, Flux<String>> lowercase() {
    return flux -> flux.map(value -> value.toLowerCase());
}

Some code samples are available on GITHUB of demos:

3.9. Kotlin support

springdoc-openapi supports Kotlin types.

The projects that use Kotlin should use:

  • springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-api if they depend on spring-boot-starter-web and they only need the access to the OpenAPI endpoints.

  • OR springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui, if they depend on spring-boot-starter-web and they also need the access to the swagger-ui.

  • OR springdoc-openapi-starter-webflux-api if they depend on spring-boot-starter-webflux and they only the access to the OpenAPI endpoints.

  • OR springdoc-openapi-starter-webflux-ui, if they depend on spring-boot-starter-webflux and they also need the access to the swagger-ui.

In addition, your project should add jackson-module-kotlin as well to have the full support of Kotlin types:
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.module</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-module-kotlin</artifactId>
    </dependency>

3.10. Groovy support

The projects that use Groovy should use:

  • springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-api if they depend on spring-boot-starter-web and they only need the access to the OpenAPI endpoints.

  • OR springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui, if they depend on spring-boot-starter-web and they also need the access to the swagger-ui.

  • OR springdoc-openapi-starter-webflux-api if they depend on spring-boot-starter-webflux and they only the access to the OpenAPI endpoints.

  • OR springdoc-openapi-starter-webflux-ui, if they depend on spring-boot-starter-webflux and they also need the access to the swagger-ui.

3.11. Javadoc support

springdoc-openapi can introspect Javadoc annotations and comments:

  • The javadoc comment of a method: is resolved as the @Operation description

  • @return : is resolved as the @Operation response description

  • The javadoc comment of an attribute: is resolved as '@Schema' description for this field.

The projects that needs Javadoc support should use:

  • springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-api if they depend on spring-boot-starter-web and they only need the access to the OpenAPI endpoints.

  • OR springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui, if they depend on spring-boot-starter-web and they also need the access to the swagger-ui.

  • OR springdoc-openapi-starter-webflux-api if they depend on spring-boot-starter-webflux and they only the access to the OpenAPI endpoints.

  • OR springdoc-openapi-starter-webflux-ui, if they depend on spring-boot-starter-webflux and they also need the access to the swagger-ui.

In addition, your project should add therapi-runtime-javadoc to read Javadoc comments at runtime. Ensure that you add it as well as its annotation processor to your project’s dependencies. Otherwise, the Javadoc support will fail silently.
    <!--Annotation processor -->
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <annotationProcessorPaths>
                        <path>
                            <groupId>com.github.therapi</groupId>
                            <artifactId>therapi-runtime-javadoc-scribe</artifactId>
                            <version>0.15.0</version>
                        </path>
                    </annotationProcessorPaths>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

    <!-- Runtime library -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.github.therapi</groupId>
        <artifactId>therapi-runtime-javadoc</artifactId>
        <version>0.15.0</version>
    </dependency>
If both a swagger-annotation description and a javadoc comment are present. The value of the swagger-annotation description will be used.

4. Springdoc-openapi Features

4.1. Adding API Information and Security documentation

The library uses spring-boot application auto-configured packages to scan for the following annotations in spring beans: OpenAPIDefinition and Info. These annotations declare, API Information: Title, version, licence, security, servers, tags, security and externalDocs. For better performance of documentation generation, declare @OpenAPIDefinition and @SecurityScheme annotations within a spring managed bean.

4.2. Error Handling for REST using @ControllerAdvice

To generate documentation automatically, make sure all the methods declare the HTTP Code responses using the annotation: @ResponseStatus

4.3. Disabling the springdoc-openapi endpoints

In order to disable the springdoc-openapi endpoint (/v3/api-docs by default) use the following property:

# Disabling the /v3/api-docs endpoint
springdoc.api-docs.enabled=false

4.4. Disabling the swagger-ui

In order to disable the swagger-ui, use the following property:

# Disabling the swagger-ui
springdoc.swagger-ui.enabled=false

4.5. Swagger-ui configuration

The library supports the swagger-ui official properties:

You need to declare swagger-ui properties as spring-boot properties. All these properties should be declared with the following prefix: springdoc.swagger-ui

4.6. Selecting the Rest Controllers to include in the documentation

Additionally, to @Hidden annotation from swagger-annotations, its possible to restrict the generated OpenAPI description using package or path configuration.

For the list of packages to include, use the following property:

# Packages to include
springdoc.packagesToScan=com.package1, com.package2

For the list of paths to include, use the following property:

# Paths to include
springdoc.pathsToMatch=/v1, /api/balance/**

4.7. Spring-webflux/WebMvc.fn with Functional Endpoints

Since version v1.5.0, a functional DSL has been introduced, thanks to this enhancement in the spring-framework: #25938

It’s an alternative functional API to the @RouterOperations annotations.

This is a sample DSL, to generate OpenAPI description to the webflux/WebMvc.fn REST endpoints:

@Bean
RouterFunction<?> routes() {
    return route().GET("/foo", HANDLER_FUNCTION, ops -> ops
            .operationId("hello")
            .parameter(parameterBuilder().name("key1").description("My key1 description"))
            .parameter(parameterBuilder().name("key2").description("My key2 description"))
            .response(responseBuilder().responseCode("200").description("This is normal response description"))
            .response(responseBuilder().responseCode("404").description("This is another response description"))
    ).build();
}

Here is the link for some sample codes:

And the Demo code, using the functional endpoints DSL:

Since version v1.3.8, the support of functional endpoints has been added. Two main annotations have been added for this purpose: @RouterOperations and @RouterOperation.

Only REST APIs with the @RouterOperations and @RouterOperation can be displayed on the swagger-ui.

  • @RouterOperation: It can be used alone, if the Router bean contains one single route related to the REST API.. When using @RouterOperation, its not mandatory to fill the path

  • @RouterOperation, can reference directly a spring Bean (beanClass property) and the underlying method (beanMethod property): Springdoc-openapi, will then inspect this method and the swagger annotations on this method level.

@Bean
@RouterOperation(beanClass = EmployeeService.class, beanMethod = "findAllEmployees")
RouterFunction<ServerResponse> getAllEmployeesRoute() {
   return route(GET("/employees").and(accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)),
         req -> ok().body(
               employeeService().findAllEmployees(), Employee.class));
}
  • @RouterOperation, contains the @Operation annotation. The @Operation annotation can also be placed on the bean method level if the property beanMethod is declared.

Don’t forget to set operationId which is mandatory.
@Bean
@RouterOperation(operation = @Operation(operationId = "findEmployeeById", summary = "Find purchase order by ID", tags = { "MyEmployee" },
      parameters = { @Parameter(in = ParameterIn.PATH, name = "id", description = "Employee Id") },
      responses = { @ApiResponse(responseCode = "200", description = "successful operation", content = @Content(schema = @Schema(implementation = Employee.class))),
            @ApiResponse(responseCode = "400", description = "Invalid Employee ID supplied"),
            @ApiResponse(responseCode = "404", description = "Employee not found") }))
RouterFunction<ServerResponse> getEmployeeByIdRoute() {
   return route(GET("/employees/{id}"),
         req -> ok().body(
               employeeRepository().findEmployeeById(req.pathVariable("id")), Employee.class));
}
  • @RouterOperations: This annotation should be used if the Router bean contains multiple routes. When using RouterOperations, its mandatory to fill the path property.

  • A @RouterOperations, contains many @RouterOperation.

@RouterOperations({ @RouterOperation(path = "/getAllPersons", beanClass = PersonService.class, beanMethod = "getAll"),
      @RouterOperation(path = "/getPerson/{id}", beanClass = PersonService.class, beanMethod = "getById"),
      @RouterOperation(path = "/createPerson", beanClass = PersonService.class, beanMethod = "save"),
      @RouterOperation(path = "/deletePerson/{id}", beanClass = PersonService.class, beanMethod = "delete") })
@Bean
public RouterFunction<ServerResponse> personRoute(PersonHandler handler) {
   return RouterFunctions
         .route(GET("/getAllPersons").and(accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)), handler::findAll)
         .andRoute(GET("/getPerson/{id}").and(accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_STREAM_JSON)), handler::findById)
         .andRoute(POST("/createPerson").and(accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)), handler::save)
         .andRoute(DELETE("/deletePerson/{id}").and(accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)), handler::delete);
}

All the documentations filled using @RouterOperation, might be completed by the router function data. For that, @RouterOperation fields must help identify uniquely the concerned route. springdoc-openpi scans for a unique route related to a @RouterOperation annotation, using on the following criteria:

  • by path

  • by path and RequestMethod

  • by path and produces

  • by path and consumes

  • by path and RequestMethod and produces

  • by path and RequestMethod and consumes

  • by path and produces and consumes

  • by path and RequestMethod and produces and consumes

Some code samples are available on GITHUB of demos:

And some project tests: (from app69 to app75)

4.8. Integration with WildFly

  • For WildFly users, you need to add the following dependency to make the swagger-ui work:

   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.webjars</groupId>
     <artifactId>webjars-locator-jboss-vfs</artifactId>
     <version>0.1.0</version>
   </dependency>

5. Springdoc-openapi Properties

springdoc-openapi relies on standard spring configuration properties (yml or properties) using the standard files locations.

5.1. springdoc-openapi core properties

Parameter name Default Value Description

springdoc.api-docs.path

/v3/api-docs

String, For custom path of the OpenAPI documentation in Json format.

springdoc.api-docs.enabled

true

Boolean. To disable the springdoc-openapi endpoint (/v3/api-docs by default).

springdoc.packages-to-scan

*

List of Strings.The list of packages to scan (comma separated)

springdoc.paths-to-match

/*

List of Strings.The list of paths to match (comma separated)

springdoc.produces-to-match

/*

List of Strings.The list of produces mediaTypes to match (comma separated)

springdoc.headers-to-match

/*

List of Strings.The list of headers to match (comma separated)

springdoc.consumes-to-match

/*

List of Strings.The list of consumes mediaTypes to match (comma separated)

springdoc.paths-to-exclude

List of Strings.The list of paths to exclude (comma separated)

springdoc.packages-to-exclude

List of Strings.The list of packages to exclude (comma separated)

springdoc.default-consumes-media-type

application/json

String. The default consumes media type.

springdoc.default-produces-media-type

/

String.The default produces media type.

springdoc.cache.disabled

false

Boolean. To disable the springdoc-openapi cache of the calculated OpenAPI.

springdoc.show-actuator

false

Boolean. To display the actuator endpoints.

springdoc.auto-tag-classes

true

Boolean. To disable the springdoc-openapi automatic tags.

springdoc.model-and-view-allowed

false

Boolean. To allow RestControllers with ModelAndView return to appear in the OpenAPI description.

springdoc.override-with-generic-response

true

Boolean. When true, automatically adds @ControllerAdvice responses to all the generated responses.

springdoc.api-docs.groups.enabled

true

Boolean. To disable the springdoc-openapi groups.

springdoc.group-configs[0].group

String.The group name

springdoc.group-configs[0].display-name

String.The display name of the group.

springdoc.group-configs[0].packages-to-scan

*

List of Strings.The list of packages to scan for a group (comma separated)

springdoc.group-configs[0].paths-to-match

/*

List of Strings.The list of paths to match for a group(comma separated)

springdoc.group-configs[0].paths-to-exclude

``

List of Strings.The list of paths to exclude for a group(comma separated)

springdoc.group-configs[0].packages-to-exclude

List of Strings.The list of packages to exclude for a group(comma separated)

springdoc.group-configs[0].produces-to-match

/*

List of Strings.The list of produces mediaTypes to match (comma separated)

springdoc.group-configs[0].consumes-to-match

/*

List of Strings.The list of consumes mediaTypes to match (comma separated)

springdoc.group-configs[0].headers-to-match

/*

List of Strings.The list of headers to match (comma separated)

springdoc.webjars.prefix

/webjars

String, To change the webjars prefix that is visible the URL of swagger-ui for spring-webflux.

springdoc.api-docs.resolve-schema-properties

false

Boolean. To enable property resolver on @Schema (name, title and description).

springdoc.remove-broken-reference-definitions

true

Boolean. To disable removal of broken reference definitions.

springdoc.writer-with-default-pretty-printer

false

Boolean. To enable pretty print of the OpenApi specification.

springdoc.model-converters.deprecating-converter.enabled

true

Boolean. To disable deprecating model converter.

springdoc.model-converters.polymorphic-converter.enabled

true

Boolean. To disable polymorphic model converter.

springdoc.model-converters.pageable-converter.enabled

true

Boolean. To disable pageable model converter.

springdoc.model-converters.sort-converter.enabled

true

Boolean. To disable Sort converter.

springdoc.use-fqn

false

Boolean. To enable fully qualified names.

springdoc.show-login-endpoint

false

Boolean. To make spring security login-endpoint visible.

springdoc.pre-loading-enabled

false

Boolean. Pre-loading setting to load OpenAPI on application startup.

springdoc.pre-loading-locales

List of Strings.The list of locales to load OpenAPI on application startup.(comma separated) If not specified, it will preload with the default Locale.

springdoc.writer-with-order-by-keys

false

Boolean. Enable a deterministic/alphabetical ordering.

springdoc.use-management-port

false

Boolean. To expose the swagger-ui on the actuator management port.

springdoc.disable-i18n

false

Boolean. To disable automatic translation using i18n.

springdoc.show-spring-cloud-functions

true

Boolean. To display the spring-cloud-function web endpoints.

springdoc.enable-groovy

true

Boolean. To enable Groovy support.

springdoc.enable-spring-security

true

Boolean. To enable spring-security support.

springdoc.enable-kotlin

true

Boolproperty resolver on @Schema (extensionean. To enable Kotlin support.

springdoc.enable-hateoas

true

Boolean. To enable spring-hateoas support.

springdoc.enable-data-rest

true

Boolean. To enable spring-data-rest support.

springdoc.api-docs.version

openapi_3_0

String. To Choose OpenAPI 3.0 or OpenAPI 3.1 (using the value OPENAPI_3_1).

springdoc.default-flat-param-object

false

Boolean. To default flatten parameter.

springdoc.default-support-form-data

false

Boolean. To default set parameters to form data when specifying api to accept form data.

springdoc.nullable-request-parameter-enabled

true

Boolean. To default Enable Support for nullable request parameters in Kotlin.

springdoc.show-oauth2-endpoints

false

Boolean. To make spring security oauth2-endpoint visible.

springdoc.api-docs.resolve-extensions-properties

false

Boolean. To enable support of spring property resolver for @ExtensionProperty.

springdoc.enable-default-api-docs

true

Boolean. To enable default OpenAPI endpoint /v3/api-docs.

5.2. swagger-ui properties

  • The support of the swagger-ui properties is available on springdoc-openapi. See Official documentation.

  • You can use the same swagger-ui properties in the documentation as Spring Boot properties.

All these properties should be declared with the following prefix: springdoc.swagger-ui
Parameter name Default Value Description

springdoc.swagger-ui.path

/swagger-ui.html

String, For custom path of the swagger-ui HTML documentation.

springdoc.swagger-ui.enabled

true

Boolean. To disable the swagger-ui endpoint (/swagger-ui.html by default).

springdoc.swagger-ui.configUrl

/v3/api-docs/swagger-config

String. URL to fetch external configuration document from.

springdoc.swagger-ui.layout

BaseLayout

String. The name of a component available via the plugin system to use as the top-level layout for Swagger UI.

springdoc.swagger-ui.validatorUrl

validator.swagger.io/validator

By default, Swagger UI attempts to validate specs against swagger.io’s online validator. You can use this parameter to set a different validator URL, for example for locally deployed validators Validator Badge. Setting it to either none, 127.0.0.1 or localhost will disable validation.

springdoc.swagger-ui.tryItOutEnabled

false

Boolean. Controls whether the "Try it out" section should be enabled by default.

springdoc.swagger-ui.filter

false

Boolean OR String. If set, enables filtering. The top bar will show an edit box that you can use to filter the tagged operations that are shown. Can be Boolean to enable or disable, or a string, in which case filtering will be enabled using that string as the filter expression. Filtering is case sensitive matching the filter expression anywhere inside the tag.

springdoc.swagger-ui.operationsSorter

Function=(a ⇒ a). Apply a sort to the operation list of each API. It can be 'alpha' (sort by paths alphanumerically), 'method' (sort by HTTP method) or a function (see Array.prototype.sort() to know how sort function works). Default is the order returned by the server unchanged.

springdoc.swagger-ui.tagsSorter

Function=(a ⇒ a). Apply a sort to the tag list of each API. It can be 'alpha' (sort by paths alphanumerically) or a function see Array.prototype.sort() to learn how to write a sort function). Two tag name strings are passed to the sorter for each pass. Default is the order determined by Swagger UI.

springdoc.swagger-ui.oauth2RedirectUrl

/swagger-ui/oauth2-redirect.html

String. OAuth redirect URL.

springdoc.swagger-ui.displayOperationId

false

Boolean. Controls the display of operationId in operations list. The default is false.

springdoc.swagger-ui.displayRequestDuration

false

Boolean. Controls the display of the request duration (in milliseconds) for "Try it out" requests.

springdoc.swagger-ui.deepLinking

false

Boolean. If set to true, enables deep linking for tags and operations. See the [Deep Linking documentation](swagger.io/docs/open-source-tools/swagger-ui/usage/deep-linking) for more information.

springdoc.swagger-ui.defaultModelsExpandDepth

1

Number. The default expansion depth for models (set to -1 completely hide the models).

springdoc.swagger-ui.defaultModelExpandDepth

1

Number. The default expansion depth for the model on the model-example section.

springdoc.swagger-ui.defaultModelRendering

String=["example"*, "model"]. Controls how the model is shown when the API is first rendered. (The user can always switch the rendering for a given model by clicking the 'Model' and 'Example Value' links.)

springdoc.swagger-ui.docExpansion

String=["list"*, "full", "none"]. Controls the default expansion setting for the operations and tags. It can be 'list' (expands only the tags), 'full' (expands the tags and operations) or 'none' (expands nothing).

springdoc.swagger-ui.maxDisplayedTags

Number. If set, limits the number of tagged operations displayed to at most this many. The default is to show all operations.

springdoc.swagger-ui.showExtensions

false

Boolean. Controls the display of vendor extension (x-) fields and values for Operations, Parameters, and Schema.

springdoc.swagger-ui.url

String.To configure, the path of a custom OpenAPI file . Will be ignored if urls is used.

springdoc.swagger-ui.showCommonExtensions

false

Boolean. Controls the display of extensions (pattern, maxLength, minLength, maximum, minimum) fields and values for Parameters.

springdoc.swagger-ui.supportedSubmitMethods

Array=["get", "put", "post", "delete", "options", "head", "patch", "trace"]. List of HTTP methods that have the "Try it out" feature enabled. An empty array disables "Try it out" for all operations. This does not filter the operations from the display.

springdoc.swagger-ui.queryConfigEnabled

false

Boolean. Disabled since v1.6.0. This parameter enables (legacy) overriding configuration parameters via URL search params. See security advisory before enabling this feature.

springdoc.swagger-ui.oauth. additionalQueryStringParams

String. Additional query parameters added to authorizationUrl and tokenUrl.

springdoc.swagger-ui.disable-swagger-default-url

false

Boolean. To disable the swagger-ui default petstore url. (Available since v1.4.1).

springdoc.swagger-ui.urls[0].url

URL. The url of the swagger group, used by Topbar plugin. URLs must be unique among all items in this array, since they’re used as identifiers.

springdoc.swagger-ui.urls[0].name

String. The name of the swagger group, used by Topbar plugin. Names must be unique among all items in this array, since they’re used as identifiers.

springdoc.swagger-ui.urlsPrimaryName

String. The name of the swagger group which will be displayed when Swagger UI loads.

springdoc.swagger-ui.oauth.clientId

String. Default clientId. MUST be a string.

springdoc.swagger-ui.oauth.clientSecret

String. Default clientSecret. Never use this parameter in your production environment. It exposes crucial security information. This feature is intended for dev/test environments only.

springdoc.swagger-ui.oauth.realm

String. realm query parameter (for OAuth 1) added to authorizationUrl and tokenUrl.

springdoc.swagger-ui.oauth.appName

String. OAuth application name, displayed in authorization popup.

springdoc.swagger-ui.oauth.scopeSeparator

String. OAuth scope separator for passing scopes, encoded before calling, default value is a space (encoded value %20).

springdoc.swagger-ui.csrf.enabled

false

Boolean. To enable CSRF support

springdoc.swagger-ui.csrf.use-local-storage

false

Boolean. To get the CSRF token from the Local Storage.

springdoc.swagger-ui.csrf.use-session-storage

false

Boolean. To get the CSRF token from the Session Storage.

springdoc.swagger-ui.csrf.cookie-name

XSRF-TOKEN

String. Optional CSRF, to set the CSRF cookie name.

springdoc.swagger-ui.csrf.header-name

X-XSRF-TOKEN

String. Optional CSRF, to set the CSRF header name.

springdoc.swagger-ui.syntaxHighlight.activated

true

Boolean. Whether syntax highlighting should be activated or not.

springdoc.swagger-ui.syntaxHighlight.theme

agate

String. String=["agate"*, "arta", "monokai", "nord", "obsidian", "tomorrow-night"]. Highlight.js syntax coloring theme to use. (Only these 6 styles are available.)

springdoc.swagger-ui.oauth. useBasicAuthentication WithAccessCodeGrant

false

Boolean. Only activated for the accessCode flow. During the authorization_code request to the tokenUrl, pass the Client Password using the HTTP Basic Authentication scheme (Authorization header with Basic base64encode(client_id + client_secret)).

springdoc.swagger-ui.oauth. usePkceWithAuthorization CodeGrant

false

Boolean.Only applies to authorizatonCode flows. Proof Key for Code Exchange brings enhanced security for OAuth public clients.

springdoc.swagger-ui.persistAuthorization

false

Boolean. If set to true, it persists authorization data and it would not be lost on browser close/refresh

springdoc.swagger-ui.use-root-path

false

Boolean. If set to true, the swagger-ui will be accessible from the application root path directly.

6. Springdoc-openapi Plugins

6.1. Maven plugin

The aim of springdoc-openapi-maven-plugin is to generate json and yaml OpenAPI description during build time. The plugin works during integration-tests phase, and generate the OpenAPI description. The plugin works in conjunction with spring-boot-maven plugin.

You can test it during the integration tests phase using the maven command:

mvn verify

In order to use this functionality, you need to add the plugin declaration on the plugins section of your pom.xml:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>${spring-boot-maven-plugin.version}</version>
    <configuration>
        <jvmArguments>-Dspring.application.admin.enabled=true</jvmArguments>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <goals>
                <goal>start</goal>
                <goal>stop</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.springdoc</groupId>
    <artifactId>springdoc-openapi-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.4</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>integration-test</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>generate</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

For more custom settings of the springdoc-openapi-maven-plugin, you can consult the plugin documentation:

6.2. Gradle plugin

This plugin allows you to generate an OpenAPI 3 specification for a Spring Boot application from a Gradle build.

plugins {
      id("org.springframework.boot") version "3.1.2"
      id("org.springdoc.openapi-gradle-plugin") version "1.8.0"
}

When you add this plugin and its runtime dependency plugins to your build file, the plugin creates the following tasks:

  • forkedSpringBootRun

  • generateOpenApiDocs

gradle clean generateOpenApiDocs

For more custom configuration of springdoc-openapi-gradle-plugin ,you can consult the plugin documentation:

8. Migrating from springdoc-openapi v1

All the modules have been renamed. springdoc-openapi-starter-common integrates many spring modules support in order to hide the maximum of complexity. It allows the support out of the box for Actuator / Spring Cloud Function / Spring Data Rest/ Spring Native/ Spring Hateoas / Spring Securtiy / Kotlin/ Javadoc.

The following table describes the main modules changes:

springdoc-openapi-v1 springdoc-openapi-v2 Description

springdoc-openapi-common

springdoc-openapi-starter-common

Includes foundation springdoc-openapi features

springdoc-openapi-data-rest

springdoc-openapi-starter-common

For Spring Data Rest support

springdoc-openapi-groovy

springdoc-openapi-starter-common

For Groovy support

springdoc-openapi-hateoas

springdoc-openapi-starter-common

For Spring Hateoas support

springdoc-openapi-javadoc

springdoc-openapi-starter-common

For Javadoc support

springdoc-openapi-kotlin

springdoc-openapi-starter-common

For Kotlin support

springdoc-openapi-security

springdoc-openapi-starter-common

For Spring Security support

springdoc-openapi-webmvc-core

springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-api

For Spring WebMvc support

springdoc-openapi-webflux-core

springdoc-openapi-starter-webflux-api

For Spring WebFlux support

springdoc-openapi-ui

springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui

For using the Swagger-UI in a Spring WebMvc context

springdoc-openapi-webflux-ui

springdoc-openapi-starter-webflux-ui

For using the Swagger-UI in a Spring WebFlux context

classes/annotations changes
springdoc-openapi-v1 springdoc-openapi-v2

org.springdoc.core.SpringDocUtils

org.springdoc.core.utils.SpringDocUtils

org.springdoc.api.annotations.ParameterObject

org.springdoc.core.annotations.ParameterObject

org.springdoc.core.GroupedOpenApi

org.springdoc.core.models.GroupedOpenApi

org.springdoc.core.customizers.OpenApiCustomiser

org.springdoc.core.customizers.OpenApiCustomizer

org.springdoc.core.Constants

org.springdoc.core.utils.Constants

org.springdoc.core.SwaggerUiConfigParameters

org.springdoc.core.properties.SwaggerUiConfigParameters

Migration tips

The following modules are not anymore needed and can be removed:

  • springdoc-openapi-javadoc

  • springdoc-openapi-kotlin

  • springdoc-openapi-data-rest

  • springdoc-openapi-security

  • springdoc-openapi-webmvc-core

  • springdoc-openapi-webflux-core

  • springdoc-openapi-hateoas

  • springdoc-openapi-groovy

In addition:

  • Replace springdoc-openapi-ui by springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui

  • Replace springdoc-openapi-webflux-ui by springdoc-openapi-starter-webflux-ui

9. Migrating from SpringFox

  • Remove springfox and swagger 2 dependencies. Add springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui dependency instead.

   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springdoc</groupId>
      <artifactId>springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui</artifactId>
      <version>2.4.0</version>
   </dependency>
  • Replace swagger 2 annotations with swagger 3 annotations (it is already included with springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui dependency). Package for swagger 3 annotations is io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.

    • @Api@Tag

    • @ApiIgnore@Parameter(hidden = true) or @Operation(hidden = true) or @Hidden

    • @ApiImplicitParam@Parameter

    • @ApiImplicitParams@Parameters

    • @ApiModel@Schema

    • @ApiModelProperty(hidden = true)@Schema(accessMode = READ_ONLY)

    • @ApiModelProperty@Schema

    • @ApiOperation(value = "foo", notes = "bar")@Operation(summary = "foo", description = "bar")

    • @ApiParam@Parameter

    • @ApiResponse(code = 404, message = "foo")@ApiResponse(responseCode = "404", description = "foo")

  • This step is optional: Only if you have multiple Docket beans replace them with GroupedOpenApi beans.

Before:

  @Bean
  public Docket publicApi() {
      return new Docket(DocumentationType.SWAGGER_2)
              .select()
              .apis(RequestHandlerSelectors.basePackage("org.github.springshop.web.public"))
              .paths(PathSelectors.regex("/public.*"))
              .build()
              .groupName("springshop-public")
              .apiInfo(apiInfo());
  }

  @Bean
  public Docket adminApi() {
      return new Docket(DocumentationType.SWAGGER_2)
              .select()
              .apis(RequestHandlerSelectors.basePackage("org.github.springshop.web.admin"))
              .paths(PathSelectors.regex("/admin.*"))
              .apis(RequestHandlerSelectors.withMethodAnnotation(Admin.class))
              .build()
              .groupName("springshop-admin")
              .apiInfo(apiInfo());
  }

Now:

  @Bean
  public GroupedOpenApi publicApi() {
      return GroupedOpenApi.builder()
              .group("springshop-public")
              .pathsToMatch("/public/**")
              .build();
  }
  @Bean
  public GroupedOpenApi adminApi() {
      return GroupedOpenApi.builder()
              .group("springshop-admin")
              .pathsToMatch("/admin/**")
              .addOpenApiMethodFilter(method -> method.isAnnotationPresent(Admin.class))
              .build();
  }

If you have only one Docket — remove it and instead add properties to your application.properties:

springdoc.packagesToScan=package1, package2
springdoc.pathsToMatch=/v1, /api/balance/**
  • Add bean of OpenAPI type. See example:

  @Bean
  public OpenAPI springShopOpenAPI() {
      return new OpenAPI()
              .info(new Info().title("SpringShop API")
              .description("Spring shop sample application")
              .version("v0.0.1")
              .license(new License().name("Apache 2.0").url("http://springdoc.org")))
              .externalDocs(new ExternalDocumentation()
              .description("SpringShop Wiki Documentation")
              .url("https://springshop.wiki.github.org/docs"));
  }

10. Other resources

10.2. Dependencies repository

The springdoc-openapi libraries are hosted on maven central repository. The artifacts can be viewed accessed at the following locations:

Releases:

Snapshots:

springdoc-openapi is on Open Collective.

If you ❤️ this project consider becoming a sponsor.

This money is used to cover project expenses and your donation will help the project live and grow successfully.

Thank you to our bronze sponsors!

  

11.1. Benefits of being a bronze sponsor

Bronze sponsors donate $50 per month to the project, and get the following benefits:

  • You will receive a Sponsor badge 🎖!. Visibility on the front page of springdoc.org in the welcome page (about 55,000 views/month on May, 2022).

  • “Thank you” tweet from `springdoc team'.

11.2. Benefits of being a silver sponsor

Silver sponsors donate $100 per month to the project, and get the following benefits:

  • Same benefits as bronze sponsors (visibility on main pages, and thank you tweet).

  • The ability to get support for 2 issues every month, non transferable.

  • If issues are not created by the end of the month, it is lost

11.3. Benefits of being a gold sponsor

Gold sponsors donate $500 per month to the project, and get the following benefits:

  • Same benefits as silver sponsors (visibility on main pages, and thank you tweet).

  • The ability to get support for 10 issues every month, non transferable.

  • Company logos on all springdoc.org page footers

  • If issues are not created by the end of the month, the remaining ones are lost.

12. Special Thanks

  • Thank you to The Spring Team for sharing all relevant resources around Spring projects.

  • Thanks a lot JetBrains for supporting springdoc-openapi project.

JetBrains

13. F.A.Q

13.1. How can I define multiple OpenAPI definitions in one Spring Boot project?

You can define your own groups of API based on the combination of: API paths and packages to scan. Each group should have a unique groupName. The OpenAPI description of this group, will be available by default on:

  • http://server:port/context-path/v3/api-docs/groupName

To enable the support of multiple OpenAPI definitions, a bean of type GroupedOpenApi needs to be defined.

For the following Group definition(based on package path), the OpenAPI description URL will be : /v3/api-docs/stores

@Bean
public GroupedOpenApi storeOpenApi() {
   String paths[] = {"/store/**"};
   return GroupedOpenApi.builder().group("stores").pathsToMatch(paths)
         .build();
}

For the following Group definition (based on package name), the OpenAPI description URL will be: /v3/api-docs/users

@Bean
public GroupedOpenApi userOpenApi() {
   String packagesToscan[] = {"test.org.springdoc.api.app68.api.user"};
   return GroupedOpenApi.builder().group("users").packagesToScan(packagesToscan)
         .build();
}

For the following Group definition(based on path), the OpenAPI description URL will be: /v3/api-docs/pets

@Bean
public GroupedOpenApi petOpenApi() {
   String paths[] = {"/pet/**"};
   return GroupedOpenApi.builder().group("pets").pathsToMatch(paths)
         .build();
}

For the following Group definition (based on package name and path), the OpenAPI description URL will be: /v3/api-docs/groups

@Bean
public GroupedOpenApi groupOpenApi() {
   String paths[] = {"/v1/**"};
   String packagesToscan[] = {"test.org.springdoc.api.app68.api.user", "test.org.springdoc.api.app68.api.store"};
   return GroupedOpenApi.builder().group("groups").pathsToMatch(paths).packagesToScan(packagesToscan)
         .build();
}

For more details about the usage, you can have a look at the following sample Test:

13.2. How can I configure Swagger UI?

  • The support of the swagger official properties is available on springdoc-openapi. See Official documentation.

  • You can use the same swagger properties in the documentation as Spring Boot properties.

All these properties should be declared with the following prefix: springdoc.swagger-ui

13.3. How can I filter the resources documented in the output specification by the provided group?

  • You can use the standard swagger-ui property filter.

springdoc.swagger-ui.filter=group-a

13.4. How can I disable/enable Swagger UI generation based on env variable?

  • This property helps you disable only the UI.

springdoc.swagger-ui.enabled=false

13.5. How can I control the default expansion setting for the operations and tags, in the Swagger UI ,

  • You can set this property in your application.yml like so for example:

springdoc.swagger-ui.doc-expansion= none

13.6. How can I change the layout of the swagger-ui?

  • For layout options, you can use swagger-ui configuration options. For example:

springdoc.swagger-ui.layout=BaseLayout

13.7. How can I sort endpoints alphabetically?

  • You can use the following springdoc-openapi properties:

#For sorting endpoints alphabetically
springdoc.swagger-ui.operationsSorter=alpha
#For sorting tags alphabetically
springdoc.swagger-ui.tagsSorter=alpha

13.8. How can I disable the try it out button?

  • You have to set the following property:

springdoc.swagger-ui.supportedSubmitMethods="get", "put", "post", "delete", "options", "head", "patch", "trace"

13.9. How can I add Reusable Enums ?

  • You should add @Schema(enumAsRef = true) on your enum.

13.10. How can i apply enumAsRef = true to all enums ?

  • Declare the following property:

static {
    io.swagger.v3.core.jackson.ModelResolver.enumsAsRef = true;
}

13.11. How can I explicitly set which paths to filter?

  • You can set list of paths to include using the following property:

springdoc.pathsToMatch=/v1, /api/balance/**

13.12. How can I explicitly set which packages to scan?

  • You can set list of packages to include using the following property:

springdoc.packagesToScan=package1, package2

13.13. How can I set Swagger properties programmatically?

These can be set by creating a swaggerUiConfig bean as follows:

---
@Bean
@Primary
fun swaggerUiConfig(config: SwaggerUiConfigProperties): SwaggerUiConfigProperties {
    config.showCommonExtensions = true
    config.queryConfigEnabled = true
    return config
}
---

13.14. How can I ignore some field of model ?

  • You can use the following annotation on the top of the field that you want to hide:

  • @Schema(hidden = true)

13.15. How can I ignore @AuthenticationPrincipal parameter from spring-security ?

  • A solution workaround would be to use: @Parameter(hidden = true)

  • The projects that use spring-boot-starter-security or spring-security-oauth2-authorization-server should use:

    • springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-api if they depend on spring-boot-starter-web and they only need the access to the OpenAPI endpoints.

    • OR springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui, if they depend on spring-boot-starter-web and they also need the access to the swagger-ui.

    • OR springdoc-openapi-starter-webflux-api if they depend on spring-boot-starter-webflux and they only the access to the OpenAPI endpoints.

    • OR springdoc-openapi-starter-webflux-ui, if they depend on spring-boot-starter-webflux and they also need the access to the swagger-ui.

13.16. Is there a Gradle plugin available?

13.17. How can I hide a parameter from the documentation ?

  • You can use @Parameter(hidden = true)

13.18. Is @Parameters annotation supported ?

  • Yes

13.19. Does springdoc-openapi support Jersey?

13.20. Can springdoc-openapi generate API only for @RestController?

  • @RestController is equivalent to @Controller + @RequestMapping on the type level.

  • For some legacy apps, we are constrained to still support both.

  • If you need to hide the @Controller on the type level, in this case, you can use: @Hidden on controller level.

  • Please note this annotation can be also used to hide some methods from the generated documentation.

13.21. Are the following validation annotations supported : @NotEmpty @NotBlank @PositiveOrZero @NegativeOrZero?

  • Yes

13.22. How can I map Pageable (spring-data-commons) object to correct URL-Parameter in Swagger UI?

The support for Pageable of spring-data-commons is available out-of-the box since springdoc-openapi v1.6.0. For this, you have to combine @ParameterObject annotation with the Pageable type.

Before springdoc-openapi v1.6.0:

  • You can use as well @ParameterObject instead of @PageableAsQueryParam for HTTP GET methods.

static {
    getConfig().replaceParameterObjectWithClass(org.springframework.data.domain.Pageable.class, Pageable.class)
            .replaceParameterObjectWithClass(org.springframework.data.domain.PageRequest.class, Pageable.class);
}
  • Another solution, is to configure Pageable manually:

    • you will have to declare the explicit mapping of Pageable fields as Query Params and add the @Parameter(hidden = true) Pageable pageable on your pageable parameter.

    • You should also, declare the annotation @PageableAsQueryParam provided by springdoc-openapi on the method level, or declare your own if need to define your custom description, defaultValue, …​

If you want to disable the support of spring Pageable Type, you can use:

springdoc.model-converters.pageable-converter.enabled=false
The property springdoc.model-converters.pageable-converter.enabled is only available since v1.5.11+

13.23. How can I generate enums in the generated description?

  • You could add a property allowableValues, to @Parameter. For example:

@GetMapping("/example")
public Object example(@Parameter(name ="json", schema = @Schema(description = "var 1",type = "string", allowableValues = {"1", "2"}))
String json) {
   return null;
}
  • or you could override toString on your enum:

@Override
@JsonValue
public String toString() {
   return String.valueOf(action);
}

13.24. How can I deploy springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui behind a reverse proxy?

  • If your application is running behind a proxy, a load-balancer or in the cloud, the request information (like the host, port, scheme…​) might change along the way. Your application may be running on 10.10.10.10:8080, but HTTP clients should only see example.org.

  • RFC7239 "Forwarded Headers" defines the Forwarded HTTP header; proxies can use this header to provide information about the original request. You can configure your application to read those headers and automatically use that information when creating links and sending them to clients in HTTP 302 responses, JSON documents or HTML pages. There are also non-standard headers, like X-Forwarded-Host, X-Forwarded-Port, X-Forwarded-Proto, X-Forwarded-Ssl, and X-Forwarded-Prefix.

  • If the proxy adds the commonly used X-Forwarded-For and X-Forwarded-Proto headers, setting server.forward-headers-strategy to NATIVE is enough to support those. With this option, the Web servers themselves natively support this feature; you can check their specific documentation to learn about specific behavior.

  • You need to make sure the following header is set in your reverse proxy configuration: X-Forwarded-Prefix

  • For example, using Apache 2, configuration:

RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Prefix "/custom-path"
  • Then, in your Spring Boot application make sure your application handles this header: X-Forwarded-For. There are two ways to achieve this:

server.use-forward-headers=true
  • If this is not enough, Spring Framework provides a ForwardedHeaderFilter. You can register it as a Servlet Filter in your application by setting server.forward-headers-strategy is set to FRAMEWORK.

  • Since Spring Boot 3.2, this is the new property to handle reverse proxy headers:

server.forward-headers-strategy=framework
  • And you can add the following bean to your application:

@Bean
ForwardedHeaderFilter forwardedHeaderFilter() {
   return new ForwardedHeaderFilter();
}

13.25. Is @JsonView annotations in Spring MVC APIs supported?

  • Yes

13.26. Adding springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui dependency breaks my public/index.html welcome page

  • If you already have static content on your root, and you don’t want it to be overridden by springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui configuration, you can just define a custom configuration of the swagger-ui, in order not to override the configuration of your files from in your context-root:

  • For example use:

springdoc.swagger-ui.path= /swagger-ui/api-docs.html

13.28. How can I customise the OpenAPI object ?

@Bean
public OpenApiCustomizer consumerTypeHeaderOpenAPICustomizer() {
return openApi -> openApi.getPaths().values().stream().flatMap(pathItem -> pathItem.readOperations().stream())
    .forEach(operation -> operation.addParametersItem(new HeaderParameter().$ref("#/components/parameters/myConsumerTypeHeader")));
}
This bean OpenApiCustomizer will be applied to the Default OpenAPI only.

If you need the OpenApiCustomizer to applied to GroupedOpenApi as well, then use GlobalOpenApiCustomizer instead.

13.29. How can I return an empty content as response?

  • It is be possible to handle as return an empty content as response using, one of the following syntaxes:

  • content = @Content

  • content = @Content(schema = @Schema(hidden = true))

  • For example:

@Operation(summary = "Get thing", responses = {
      @ApiResponse(description = "Successful Operation", responseCode = "200", content = @Content(mediaType = "application/json", schema = @Schema(implementation = String.class))),
      @ApiResponse(responseCode = "404", description = "Not found", content = @Content),
      @ApiResponse(responseCode = "401", description = "Authentication Failure", content = @Content(schema = @Schema(hidden = true))) })
@RequestMapping(path = "/testme", method = RequestMethod.GET)
ResponseEntity<String> testme() {
   return ResponseEntity.ok("Hello");
}

13.30. How are endpoints with multiple consuming media types supported?

  • An overloaded method on the same class, with the same HTTP Method and path, will have as a result, only one OpenAPI Operation generated.

  • In addition, it’s recommended to have the @Operation in the level of one of the overloaded methods. Otherwise it might be overridden if it’s declared many times within the same overloaded method.

13.31. How can I get yaml and json (OpenAPI) in compile time?

13.32. What are the ignored types in the documentation?

13.33. How can i disable ignored types:

If you don’t want to ignore the types Principal, Locale, HttpServletRequest, and others,:

SpringDocUtils.getConfig().removeRequestWrapperToIgnore(HttpServletRequest.class)

13.34. How do I add authorization header in requests?

  • You should add the @SecurityRequirement tags to your protected APIs.

  • For example:

@Operation(security = { @SecurityRequirement(name = "bearer-key") })
  • And the security definition sample:

@Bean
 public OpenAPI customOpenAPI() {
   return new OpenAPI()
          .components(new Components()
          .addSecuritySchemes("bearer-key",
          new SecurityScheme().type(SecurityScheme.Type.HTTP).scheme("bearer").bearerFormat("JWT")));
}

13.35. Differentiation to Springfox project

  • OAS 3 was released in July 2017, and there was no release of springfox to support OAS 3. springfox covers for the moment only swagger 2 integration with Spring Boot. The latest release date is June 2018. So, in terms of maintenance there is a big lack of support lately.

  • We decided to move forward and share the library that we already used on our internal projects, with the community.

  • The biggest difference with springfox, is that we integrate new features not covered by springfox:

  • The integration between Spring Boot and OpenAPI 3 standard.

  • We rely on on swagger-annotations and swagger-ui only official libraries.

  • We support new features on Spring 5, like spring-webflux with annotated and functional style.

  • We do our best to answer all the questions and address all issues or enhancement requests

13.36. How do I migrate to OpenAPI 3 with springdoc-openapi

  • There is no relation between springdoc-openapi and springfox.If you want to migrate to OpenAPI 3:

  • Remove all the dependencies and the related code to springfox

  • Add springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui dependency

  • If you don’t want to serve the UI from your root path or there is a conflict with an existing configuration, you can just change the following property:

springdoc.swagger-ui.path=/you-path/swagger-ui.html

13.37. How can I set a global header?

  • You may have global parameters with Standard OpenAPI description.

  • If you need the definitions to appear globally (within every group), no matter if the group fulfills the conditions specified on the GroupedOpenApi , you can use OpenAPI Bean.

  • You can define common parameters under parameters in the global components section and reference them elsewhere via $ref. You can also define global header parameters.

  • For this, you can override to OpenAPI Bean, and set the global headers or parameters definition on the components level.

@Bean
public OpenAPI customOpenAPI(@Value("${springdoc.version}") String appVersion) {
 return new OpenAPI()
        .components(new Components().addSecuritySchemes("basicScheme", new SecurityScheme().type(SecurityScheme.Type.HTTP).scheme("basic"))
        .addParameters("myHeader1", new Parameter().in("header").schema(new StringSchema()).name("myHeader1")).addHeaders("myHeader2", new Header().description("myHeader2 header").schema(new StringSchema())))
        .info(new Info()
        .title("Petstore API")
        .version(appVersion)
        .description("This is a sample server Petstore server. You can find out more about Swagger at [http://swagger.io](http://swagger.io) or on [irc.freenode.net, #swagger](http://swagger.io/irc/). For this sample, you can use the api key `special-key` to test the authorization filters.")
        .termsOfService("http://swagger.io/terms/")
        .license(new License().name("Apache 2.0").url("http://springdoc.org")));
}

13.38. Are Callbacks supported?

  • Yes

13.39. How can I define SecurityScheme ?

  • You can use: @SecurityScheme annotation.

  • Or you can define it programmatically, by overriding OpenAPI Bean:

 @Bean
 public OpenAPI customOpenAPI(@Value("${springdoc.version}") String appVersion) {
  return new OpenAPI()
   .components(new Components().addSecuritySchemes("basicScheme",
   new SecurityScheme().type(SecurityScheme.Type.HTTP).scheme("basic")))
   info(new Info().title("SpringShop API").version(appVersion)
   .license(new License().name("Apache 2.0").url("http://springdoc.org")));
 }

13.40. How can I hide an operation or a controller from documentation ?

  • You can use @io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.Hidden annotation at @RestController, @RestControllerAdvice and method level

  • The @Hidden annotation on exception handler methods, is considered when building generic (error) responses from @ControllerAdvice exception handlers.

  • Or use: @Operation(hidden = true)

13.41. How to configure global security schemes?

  • For global SecurityScheme, you can add it inside your own OpenAPI definition:

@Bean
public OpenAPI customOpenAPI() {
    return new OpenAPI().components(new Components()
    .addSecuritySchemes("basicScheme", new SecurityScheme()
    .type(SecurityScheme.Type.HTTP).scheme("basic"))).info(new Info().title("Custom API")
    .version("100")).addTagsItem(new Tag().name("mytag"));
}

13.42. Can I use spring property with swagger annotations?

  • The support of spring property resolver for @Info: title * description * version * termsOfService

  • The support of spring property resolver for @Info.license: name * url

  • The support of spring property resolver for @Info.contact: name * email * url

  • The support of spring property resolver for @Operation: description * summary

  • The support of spring property resolver for @Parameter: description * name

  • The support of spring property resolver for @ApiResponse: description

  • Its also possible to declare security URLs for @OAuthFlow: openIdConnectUrl * authorizationUrl * refreshUrl * tokenUrl

  • The support of spring property resolver for @Schema: name * title * description , by setting springdoc.api-docs.resolve-schema-properties to true

  • The support of spring property resolver for @ExtensionProperty by setting springdoc.api-docs.resolve-extensions-properties to true

13.43. How is server URL generated ?

  • Generating automatically server URL may be useful, if the documentation is not present.

  • If the server annotations are present, they will be used instead.

13.44. How can I disable springdoc-openapi cache?

  • By default, the OpenAPI description is calculated once, and then cached.

  • Sometimes the same swagger-ui is served behind internal and external proxies. some users want the server URL, to be computed on each http request.

  • In order to disable springdoc cache, you will have to set the following property:

springdoc.cache.disabled= true

13.45. How can I expose the mvc api-docs endpoints without using the swagger-ui?

  • You should use the springdoc-openapi-core dependency only:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springdoc</groupId>
  <artifactId>springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-api</artifactId>
  <version>latest.version</version>
</dependency>

13.46. How can I disable springdoc-openapi endpoints ?

  • Use the following property:

springdoc.api-docs.enabled=false

13.47. How can I hide Schema of the the response ?

  • To hide the response element, using @Schema annotation, as follows, at operation level:

@Operation(responses = @ApiResponse(responseCode = "200", content = @Content(schema = @Schema(hidden = true))))
  • Or directly at @ApiResponses level:

@ApiResponses(value = {@ApiResponse(responseCode = "200", content = @Content(schema = @Schema(hidden = true))) })
OR
@ApiResponse(responseCode = "404", description = "Not found", content = @Content)

13.48. What is the URL of the swagger-ui, when I set a different context-path?

  • If you use different context-path:

server.servlet.context-path= /foo
  • The swagger-ui will be available on the following URL:

    • http://server:port/foo/swagger-ui.html

13.49. Can I customize OpenAPI object programmatically?

  • You can Define your own OpenAPI Bean: If you need the definitions to appear globally (within every group), no matter if the group fulfills the conditions specified on the GroupedOpenApi , you can use OpenAPI Bean.

@Bean
public OpenAPI customOpenAPI(@Value("${springdoc.version}") String appVersion) {
   return new OpenAPI()
    .components(new Components().addSecuritySchemes("basicScheme",
            new SecurityScheme().type(SecurityScheme.Type.HTTP).scheme("basic")))
    .info(new Info().title("SpringShop API").version(appVersion)
            .license(new License().name("Apache 2.0").url("http://springdoc.org")));
}
  • If you need the definitions to appear within a specific group, and respect the conditions specified on the GroupedOpenApi, you can add OpenApiCustomizer to your GroupedOpenApi definition.

GroupedOpenApi.builder().group("users").pathsToMatch(paths).packagesToScan(packagedToMatch).addOpenApiCustomizer(customerGlobalHeaderOpenApiCustomizer())
                .build()

@Bean
public OpenApiCustomizer customerGlobalHeaderOpenApiCustomizer() {
   return openApi -> openApi.path("/foo",
   new PathItem().get(new Operation().operationId("foo").responses(new ApiResponses()
   .addApiResponse("default",new ApiResponse().description("")
   .content(new Content().addMediaType("fatz", new MediaType()))))));
}

13.50. Where can I find the source code of the demo applications?

13.51. Does this library supports annotations from interfaces?

  • Yes

13.53. Is file upload supported ?

  • The library supports the main file types: MultipartFile, @RequestPart, FilePart

13.54. Can I use @Parameter inside @Operation annotation?

  • Yes, it’s supported

13.55. Why my parameter is marked as required?

  • Any @GetMapping parameters is marked as required, even if @RequestParam is missing.

  • You can add @Parameter(required=false) annotation if you need different behaviour.

  • Query parameters with defaultValue specified are marked as required.

13.56. How are overloaded methods with the same endpoints, but with different parameters

  • springdoc-openapi renders these methods as a single endpoint. It detects the overloaded endpoints, and generates parameters.schema.oneOf.

13.57. What is a proper way to set up Swagger UI to use provided spec.yml?

  • With this property, all the springdoc-openapi auto-configuration beans are disabled:

springdoc.api-docs.enabled=false
  • Then enable the minimal Beans configuration, by adding this Bean:

@Bean
SpringDocConfiguration springDocConfiguration(){
   return new SpringDocConfiguration();
}

@Bean
SpringDocConfigProperties springDocConfigProperties() {
   return new SpringDocConfigProperties();
}

@Bean
ObjectMapperProvider objectMapperProvider(SpringDocConfigProperties springDocConfigProperties){
    return new ObjectMapperProvider(springDocConfigProperties);
}

@Bean
SpringDocUIConfiguration SpringDocUIConfiguration(Optional<SwaggerUiConfigProperties> optionalSwaggerUiConfigProperties){
    return new SpringDocUIConfiguration(optionalSwaggerUiConfigProperties);
}
  • Then configure, the path of your custom UI yaml file.

springdoc.swagger-ui.url=/api-docs.yaml

13.58. Is there a way to send authorization header through the @Parameter tag?

13.59. My Rest Controller using @Controller annotation is ignored?

  • This is the default behaviour if your @Controller doesn’t have annotation @ResponseBody

  • You can change your controllers to @RestControllers. Or add @ResponseBody + @Controller.

  • If its not possible, you can configure springdoc to scan you additional controller using SpringDocUtils. For example:

static {
   SpringDocUtils.getConfig().addRestControllers(HelloController.class);
}

13.60. How can I define groups using application.yml?

  • You can load groups dynamically using spring-boot configuration files.

  • Note that, for this usage, you don’t have to declare the GroupedOpenApi Bean.

  • You need to declare the following properties, under the prefix springdoc.group-configs.

  • For example:

springdoc.group-configs[0].group=users
springdoc.group-configs[0].paths-to-match=/user/**
springdoc.group-configs[0].packages-to-scan=test.org.springdoc.api

13.61. How can I extract fields from parameter object ?

  • You can use springdoc annotation @ParameterObject.

  • Request parameter annotated with @ParameterObject will help adding each field of the parameter as a separate request parameter.

  • This is compatible with Spring MVC request parameters mapping to POJO object.

  • This annotation does not support nested parameter objects.

  • POJO object must contain getters for fields with mandatory prefix get. Otherwise, the swagger documentation will not show the fields of the annotated entity.

13.62. How can I use the last springdoc-openapi SNAPSHOT ?

  • For testing purposes only, you can test temporarily using the last springdoc-openapi SNAPSHOT

  • To achieve that, you can on your pom.xml or your settings.xml the following section:

     <repositories>
       <repository>
         <id>snapshots-repo</id>
         <url>https://s01.oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
         <releases><enabled>false</enabled></releases>
         <snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
       </repository>
     </repositories>

13.63. How can I use enable springdoc-openapi MonetaryAmount support ?

  • If an application wants to enable the springdoc-openapi support, it declares:

SpringDocUtils.getConfig().replaceWithClass(MonetaryAmount.class, org.springdoc.core.converters.models.MonetaryAmount.class);
  • Another solution, without using springdoc-openapi MonetaryAmount, would be:

SpringDocUtils.getConfig().replaceWithSchema(MonetaryAmount.class, new ObjectSchema()
            .addProperties("amount", new NumberSchema()).example(99.96)
            .addProperties("currency", new StringSchema().example("USD")));

13.64. How can i aggregate external endpoints (exposing OPENAPI 3 spec) inside one single application?

The properties springdoc.swagger-ui.urls.*, are suitable to configure external (/v3/api-docs url). For example if you want to agreagte all the endpoints of other services, inside one single application. IMPORTANT: Don’t forget that CORS needs to be enabled as well.

13.65. How can use custom json/yml file instead of generated one ?

If your file open-api.json, contains the OpenAPI documentation in OpenAPI 3 format. Then simply declare: The file name can be anything you want, from the moment your declaration is consistent yaml or json OpenAPI Spec.

   springdoc.swagger-ui.url=/open-api.json

Then the file open-api.json, should be located in: src/main/resources/static No additional configuration is needed.

13.66. How can i enable CSRF support?

If you are using standard headers.( For example using spring-security headers) If the CSRF Token is required, swagger-ui automatically sends the new XSRF-TOKEN during each HTTP REQUEST.

If your XSRF-TOKEN isn’t standards-based, you can use a requestInterceptor to manually capture and attach the latest xsrf token to requests programmatically via spring resource transformer:

Starting from release v1.4.4 of springdoc-openapi, a new property is added to enable CSRF support, while using standard header names:

springdoc.swagger-ui.csrf.enabled=true

13.67. How can i disable the default swagger petstore URL?

You can use the following property:

springdoc.swagger-ui.disable-swagger-default-url=true

13.68. Is @PageableDefault supported, to enhance the OpenAPI 3 docuementation?

Yes, you can use it in conjunction with @ParameterObject annotation. Also, the spring-boot spring.data.web. and spring.data.rest.default. properties are supported since v1.4.5

13.69. How can i make spring security login-endpoint visible ?

You can use the following property:

springdoc.show-login-endpoint=true

13.70. How can i show schema definitions even the schema is not referenced?

You can use the following property:

springdoc.remove-broken-reference-definitions=false

13.71. How to override @Deprecated?

The whole idea of springdoc-openapi is to get your documentation the closest to the code, with minimal code changes. If the code contains @Deprecated, sprindoc-openapi will consider its schema as Deprecated as well. If you want to declare a field on swagger as non deprecated, even with the java code, the field contains @Depreacted, You can use the following property that is available since release v1.4.3:

springdoc.model-converters.deprecating-converter.enabled=false

13.72. How can i display a method that returns ModelAndView?

You can use the following property:

springdoc.model-and-view-allowed=true

13.73. How can i have pretty-printed output of the OpenApi specification?

You can use the following property:

springdoc.writer-with-default-pretty-printer=true

13.74. How can i define different schemas for the same class?

Complex objects are always resolved as a reference to a schema defined in components. For example let’s consider a Instance class with an workAddress and homeAddress attribute of type Address:

public class PersonDTO {

    @JsonProperty
    private String email;

    @JsonProperty
    private String firstName;

    @JsonProperty
    private String lastName;

    @Schema(ref = "WorkAddressSchema")
    @JsonProperty
    private Address workAddress;

    @Schema(ref = "HomeAddressSchema")
    @JsonProperty
    private Address homeAddress;

}

public class Address {

    @JsonProperty
    private String addressName;

}

If you want to define two different schemas for this class, you can set up 2 different schemas as follow:

@Bean
public OpenAPI customOpenAPI() {
return new OpenAPI().components(new Components()
.addSchemas("WorkAddressSchema", getSchemaWithDifferentDescription(Address.class, "work Address" ))
.addSchemas("HomeAddressSchema", getSchemaWithDifferentDescription(Address.class, "home Address" )));
}

private Schema getSchemaWithDifferentDescription(Class className, String description){
ResolvedSchema resolvedSchema = ModelConverters.getInstance()
.resolveAsResolvedSchema(
new AnnotatedType(className).resolveAsRef(false));
return resolvedSchema.schema.description(description);
}

13.75. How can i define different description for a class attribute depending on usage?

For example let’s consider a Instance class with an email attribute:

public class PersonDTO {

    @JsonProperty
    private String email;

    @JsonProperty
    private String firstName;

    @JsonProperty
    private String lastName;


}

If you want to define two different description for the email, you can set up 2 different schemas as follow:

@Bean
public OpenAPI customOpenAPI() {
return new OpenAPI().components(new Components()
.addSchemas("PersonDTO1", getFieldSchemaWithDifferentDescription(PersonDTO.class, "work email" ))
.addSchemas("PersonDTO2", getFieldSchemaWithDifferentDescription(PersonDTO.class, "home email" )));
}

private Schema getFieldSchemaWithDifferentDescription(Class className, String description){
    ResolvedSchema resolvedSchema = ModelConverters.getInstance()
            .resolveAsResolvedSchema(
                    new AnnotatedType(className).resolveAsRef(false));
    return resolvedSchema.schema.addProperties("email", new StringSchema().description(description));
}

13.76. Customizing swagger static resources

You can customize swagger documentation static resources located in META-INF/resources/webjars/swagger-ui/{swagger.version}/. The list of resources includes:

  • index.html

  • swagger-ui-bundle.js

  • swagger-ui.css

  • swagger-ui-standalone-preset.js

  • swagger-ui.css.map

  • swagger-ui-bundle.js.map

  • swagger-ui-standalone-preset.js.map

  • favicon-32x32.png

To do this, you need to extend the implementation of SwaggerIndexPageTransformer

public class SwaggerCodeBlockTransformer
       extends SwaggerIndexPageTransformer {
  // < constructor >
  @Override
  public Resource transform(HttpServletRequest request,
                            Resource resource,
                            ResourceTransformerChain transformer)
                            throws IOException {
      if (resource.toString().contains("swagger-ui.css")) {
          final InputStream is = resource.getInputStream();
          final InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
          try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr)) {
              final String css = br.lines().collect(Collectors.joining());
              final byte[] transformedContent = css.replace("old", "new").getBytes();
              return  new TransformedResource(resource, transformedContent);
          } // AutoCloseable br > isr > is
      }
      return super.transform(request, resource, transformer);
  }

}

Next, add transformer @Bean to your @Configuration

@Configuration
public class OpenApiConfig {
    @Bean
    public SwaggerIndexTransformer swaggerIndexTransformer(
            SwaggerUiConfigProperties a,
            SwaggerUiOAuthProperties b,
            SwaggerUiConfigParameters c,
            SwaggerWelcomeCommon d) {
        return new SwaggerCodeBlockTransformer(a, b, c, d);
    }
}

Illustrative example

Illustrative example

13.77. Is GraalVM supported ?

The native support available added in spring-boot 3. If you have some time, do not hesitate to test it before the next release.

For the OpenAPI REST endpoints, you just need to build your application with the spring native profile.

If you give @OpenAPIDefinition or @SecurityScheme to a class that has no implementation, that class will disappear when you natively compile. To avoid this, give the class a @Configuration.

@Configuration
@OpenAPIDefinition(info = @Info(title = "My App", description = "description"))
public class OpenAPIConfig {
}

13.78. What is the compatibility matrix of springdoc-openapi with spring-boot ?

springdoc-openapi 2.x is compatible with spring-boot 3.

In general, you should only pick the last stable version as per today 2.4.0.

More precisely, this the exhaustive list of spring-boot versions against which springdoc-openapi has been built:

spring-boot Versions Minimum springdoc-openapi Versions

3.0.x

2.0.x+

2.7.x, 1.5.x

1.6.0+

2.6.x, 1.5.x

1.6.0+

2.5.x, 1.5.x

1.5.9+

2.4.x, 1.5.x

1.5.0+

2.3.x, 1.5.x

1.4.0+

2.2.x, 1.5.x

1.2.1+

2.0.x, 1.5.x

1.0.0+

13.79. Why am i getting an error: Swagger UI unable to render definition, when overriding the default spring registered HttpMessageConverter?

When overriding the default spring-boot registered HttpMessageConverter, you should have ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter registered as well to have proper springdoc-openapi support.

    converters.add(new ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter());
    converters.add(new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter(jacksonBuilder.build()));
Order is very important, when registering HttpMessageConverters.

13.80. Some parameters are not generated in the resulting OpenAPI spec.

The issue is caused by the changes introduced by Spring-Boot 3.2.0 in particular for the Parameter Name Discovery. This can be fixed by adding the -parameters arg to the Maven Compiler Plugin.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <parameters>true</parameters>
    </configuration>
</plugin>