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Import OpenAPI Guide

Overview#

The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) defines a standard, language-agnostic interface to RESTful APIs which allows both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the service without access to source code, documentation, or through network traffic inspection.

Apache APISIX Dashboard supports importing OpenApi3.0(we will use OAS3.0 for short) files, both json and yaml are supported, to create one or more Routes. Currently we support most of the OpenApi specifications, but there are some differences, which are in terms of compatibility and extended fields.

Extended fields#

There are some fields required in APISIX Route but are not included in the properties of OAS3.0, in order to provide convenience for extending custom route entities based on OAS3.0, we added some extended fields such as upstream, plugins, hosts and so on. All extensions start with x-apisix.

Extended fieldsAPISIX Route Properties
x-apisix-pluginsplugins
x-apisix-scriptscript
x-apisix-upstreamupstream
x-apisix-hosthost
x-apisix-hostshosts
x-apisix-remote_addrremote_addr
x-apisix-prioritypriority
x-apisix-varsvars
x-apisix-filter_funcfilter_func
x-apisix-labelslabels
x-apisix-enable_websocketenable_websocket
x-apisix-statusstatus
x-apisix-service_idservice_id
x-apisix-upstream_idupstream_id

Please pay attention that we only extended the first level of the field, and the sub level fields will still keep the same. Just take x-apisix-upstream for an example.

...
# we add x-apisix-upstream as an extended field in OAS3.0 to stand for upstream
x-apisix-upstream:
# the sub fields of x-apisix-upstream still keeps the same as upstream's sub fields
type: roundrobin
nodes:
- host: 172.16.238.20
port: 1980
weight: 1
...

See reference for more details of the APISIX Route Properties

OAS3.0 Compatibility#

When we import routes from OAS3.0, some fields in OAS3.0 will be missed because there are not corresponding fields in APISIX's Route:

  1. API General Info: used to describe the general information about your API, some times, a OAS3.0 file contains a series of apis which belong to a app, so this info is different from the api's name and extra basic info.

Example:

# this part of information will be missed
openapi: 3.0.0
info:
version: 1.0.0-oas3
description: test desc
license:
name: Apache License 2.0
url: 'http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0'
title: test title
...
  1. API server and base path: upsream url + url prefix(options).

Example:

# this part of information will be missed
...
servers:
- url: https://api.example.com/v1
...
  1. Path params: api params described in path.

Example:

# no matter how many path parameters in the uri
# we will got the route with uri like `/get/*` after import route from OAS3.0 file
...
paths:
/get/{id}/{name}:
delete:
operationId: api1DELETE
...
  1. Query params: api params described in query.

Example:

...
paths:
/users:
get:
summary: Get a user by ID
# this part of information will be missed
parameters:
- in: path
name: userId
schema:
type: integer
required: true
description: Numeric ID of the user to get
...
  1. Responses description and links: Define the responses for a API operations.

Example:

...
paths:
/hello:
get:
description: hello world.
operationId: hello
x-apisix-service_id: service1
# this part of information will be missed
responses:
'200':
description: list response
default:
description: unexpected error
...

Examples about how to Configure the OAS3.0 in different user scenarios#

Configure a basic published route#

notice: the default status of the imported route will be unpublished, which means the route can not be accessed, if you want to import a published route, you should add x-apisix-status: 1 in you OAS3.0 file

openapi: 3.0.0
info:
version: 1.0.0-oas3
description: test desc
license:
name: Apache License 2.0
url: 'http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0'
title: test title
paths:
/hello: # route uri
get: # route method
description: hello world. # route desc
operationId: hello # route name
x-apisix-upstream: # route upstream
type: roundrobin
nodes:
- host: 172.16.238.20
port: 1980
weight: 1
x-apisix-status: 1 # the route will be published after imported
responses:
'200':
description: list response
default:
description: unexpected error

configure a route with plugins#

notice: most plugins supported by extended field x-apisix-plugins

openapi: 3.0.0
info:
version: 1.0.0-oas3
description: test desc
license:
name: Apache License 2.0
url: 'http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0'
title: test title
paths:
/hello:
get:
description: hello world.
operationId: hello
x-apisix-upstream:
type: roundrobin
nodes:
- host: 172.16.238.20
port: 1980
weight: 1
x-apisix-plugins:
limit-count:
count: 2
time_window: 60
rejected_code: 503
key: remote_addr
responses:
'200':
description: list response
default:
description: unexpected error

configure a route with parameters validation#

notice: for plugin request-validation, we will use Parameter Serialization for header parameters validation and Describing Request Body for body parameters validation in OAS3.0

openapi: 3.0.0
info:
version: "1"
description: |-
test desc
license:
name: Apache License 2.0
url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
title: |-
test title
paths:
/hello:
post:
description: |-
hello world.
operationId: hello
x-apisix-upstream:
type: roundrobin
nodes:
- host: "172.16.238.20"
port: 1980
weight: 1
parameters:
- name: id
in: header
description: ID of pet to use
required: true
schema:
type: string
style: simple

requestBody:
content:
'application/x-www-form-urlencoded':
schema:
properties:
name:
description: Update pet's name
type: string
status:
description: Updated status of the pet
type: string
required:
- status
responses:
200:
description: list response
default:
description: unexpected error

configure a route with auth plugins#

notice: for plugin basic-authjwt-auth and key-auth we will use Authentication in OAS3.0

components:
securitySchemes:
basicAuth:
type: http
scheme: basic
BearerAuth:
type: http
scheme: bearer
bearerFormat: JWT
ApiKeyAuth:
type: apiKey
in: header
name: X-API-Key
openapi: 3.0.0
info:
version: "1"
description: |-
test desc
license:
name: Apache License 2.0
url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
title: |-
test title
paths:
/hello:
post:
description: |-
hello world.
operationId: hello
x-apisix-upstream:
type: roundrobin
nodes:
- host: "172.16.238.20"
port: 1980
weight: 1
security:
- basicAuth: []
- ApiKeyAuth: []
- BearerAuth: []
responses:
200:
description: list response
default:
description: unexpected error

configure a route with exist service or upstream#

notice: if the service_id or upstream_id does not exist in APISIX, import route from the config file will get an error

openapi: 3.0.0
info:
version: 1.0.0-oas3
description: test desc
license:
name: Apache License 2.0
url: 'http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0'
title: test title
paths:
/hello:
get:
description: hello world.
operationId: hello
x-apisix-service_id: service1
responses:
'200':
description: list response
default:
description: unexpected error

configure more than one route#

info:
title: RoutesExport
version: 3.0.0
openapi: 3.0.0
paths:
/get:
delete:
operationId: api1Delete
requestBody: {}
responses:
default:
description: ''
x-apisix-enableWebsocket: false
x-apisix-labels:
API_VERSION: v2
dev: test
x-apisix-plugins:
proxy-rewrite:
disable: false
scheme: https
x-apisix-priority: 0
x-apisix-status: 1
x-apisix-upstream:
nodes:
- host: httpbin.org
port: 443
weight: 1
type: roundrobin
pass_host: node
x-apisix-vars: []
get:
operationId: api1Get
requestBody: {}
responses:
default:
description: ''
x-apisix-enableWebsocket: false
x-apisix-labels:
API_VERSION: v2
dev: test
x-apisix-plugins:
proxy-rewrite:
disable: false
scheme: https
x-apisix-priority: 0
x-apisix-status: 1
x-apisix-upstream:
nodes:
- host: httpbin.org
port: 443
weight: 1
type: roundrobin
pass_host: node
x-apisix-vars: []
/post:
post:
operationId: test_post
requestBody: {}
responses:
default:
description: ''
security: []
x-apisix-enableWebsocket: false
x-apisix-labels:
API_VERSION: v1
version: v1
x-apisix-plugins:
proxy-rewrite:
disable: false
scheme: https
x-apisix-priority: 0
x-apisix-status: 1
x-apisix-upstream:
nodes:
- host: httpbin.org
port: 443
weight: 1
type: roundrobin
pass_host: node
x-apisix-vars: []