@cerios/openapi-to-k6

Generate type-safe K6 HTTP clients from OpenAPI specifications with TypeScript types.

Features

• 🚀 Type-safe K6 clients - Full TypeScript support with generated interfaces
• 🔄 Request parameter merging - Common parameters merged with request-specific parameters
• 📝 JSDoc generation - Automatic documentation from OpenAPI descriptions
• 🎯 Operation filtering - Filter by tags, methods, paths, operationIds
• 🔧 Flexible configuration - CLI options or config file
• 📦 Uses openapi-to-typescript - Leverages existing TypeScript type generation

Installation

npm install @cerios/openapi-to-k6
# or
pnpm add @cerios/openapi-to-k6

Quick Start

CLI Usage

# Initialize a config file
npx openapi-to-k6 init

# Generate with config file
npx openapi-to-k6

# Generate with CLI options
npx openapi-to-k6 --input openapi.yaml --output k6/api-client.ts

Programmatic Usage

import { OpenApiK6Generator } from "@cerios/openapi-to-k6";

const generator = new OpenApiK6Generator({
	input: "./openapi.yaml",
	outputClient: "./k6/api-client.ts",
	outputTypes: "./k6/api-types.ts",
	useOperationId: true,
});

generator.generate();

Configuration

Create an openapi-to-k6.config.ts file:

import { defineConfig } from "@cerios/openapi-to-k6";

export default defineConfig({
	defaults: {
		includeDescriptions: true,
		showStats: true,
		preferredContentTypes: ["application/json"],
	},
	specs: [
		{
			input: "openapi.yaml",
			outputClient: "k6/api-client.ts",
			outputTypes: "k6/api-types.ts",
			useOperationId: true,
			basePath: "/api/v1",
		},
	],
});

Generated Client

The generated client follows the K6 HTTP patterns:

import http from "k6/http";
import type { Params, Response } from "k6/http";

export interface ListUsersParams {
	page?: number;
	limit?: number;
}

export interface ListUsersHeaders {
	"X-Request-ID"?: string;
}

export class ApiClient {
	private readonly baseUrl: string;
	private readonly commonRequestParameters: Params;

	constructor(baseUrl: string, commonRequestParameters: Params = {}) {
		this.baseUrl = baseUrl.replace(/\/$/, "");
		this.commonRequestParameters = commonRequestParameters;
	}

	private _mergeRequestParameters(requestParams: Params, commonParams: Params): Params {
		return {
			...commonParams,
			...requestParams,
			headers: {
				...commonParams?.headers,
				...requestParams?.headers,
			},
			tags: {
				...commonParams?.tags,
				...requestParams?.tags,
			},
		};
	}

	/**
	 * @summary List all users
	 * @method GET /users
	 */
	listUsers(
		headers?: ListUsersHeaders,
		params?: ListUsersParams,
		requestParameters?: Params
	): { response: Response; data: User[] } {
		const url = this.baseUrl + `/users` + this._buildQueryString(params);
		const mergedParams = this._mergeRequestParameters(requestParameters || {}, this.commonRequestParameters);

		const response = http.request("GET", url, undefined, {
			...mergedParams,
			headers: {
				...mergedParams?.headers,
				...this._stringifyHeaders(headers || {}),
			},
		});

		const data = response.json() as User[];
		return { response, data };
	}

	// ... more methods
}

Using the Generated Client in K6

import { ApiClient } from "./api-client";
import { check, sleep } from "k6";

// Create client with base URL and common parameters
const client = new ApiClient("https://api.example.com", {
	headers: {
		Authorization: "Bearer token123",
		"Content-Type": "application/json",
	},
	tags: {
		name: "api-test",
	},
	timeout: "30s",
});

export default function () {
	// Simple GET request
	const { response, data } = client.listUsers();

	check(response, {
		"status is 200": r => r.status === 200,
		"has users": () => data.length > 0,
	});

	// GET with query parameters
	const { response: filteredResponse, data: filteredUsers } = client.listUsers(
		undefined, // headers
		{ page: 1, limit: 10 }, // query params
		{ timeout: "5s" } // request-specific K6 params
	);

	// POST with body
	const { response: createResponse, data: newUser } = client.createUser(
		{ name: "John", email: "[email protected]" }, // body
		{ timeout: "10s" } // request params
	);

	// Path parameters
	const { response: userResponse, data: user } = client.getUserById(
		"123" // userId path param
	);

	sleep(1);
}

export const options = {
	vus: 10,
	duration: "30s",
};

Options

Generator Options

| Option | Type | Default | Description | | ----------------------- | ---------- | ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | input | string | required | Path to OpenAPI specification file | | outputClient | string | required | Output path for generated K6 client | | outputTypes | string | - | Separate file for TypeScript types | | useOperationId | boolean | false | Use operationId for client/service method names and operation-derived TypeScript type names | | basePath | string | - | Base path to prepend to all endpoints | | stripPathPrefix | string | - | Strip prefix from paths (glob support) | | ignoreHeaders | string[] | - | Header patterns to ignore | | includeDescriptions | boolean | true | Include JSDoc descriptions | | showStats | boolean | true | Show generation statistics | | preferredContentTypes | string[] | ["application/json"] | Preferred content types |

Operation Filters

{
  operationFilters: {
    includeTags: ['users', 'auth'],      // Only these tags
    excludeTags: ['admin'],               // Exclude these tags
    includeMethods: ['get', 'post'],      // Only these HTTP methods
    excludeMethods: ['delete'],           // Exclude these methods
    includePaths: ['/api/**'],            // Only matching paths (glob)
    excludePaths: ['/internal/**'],       // Exclude matching paths
    includeOperationIds: ['getUser'],     // Only these operationIds
    excludeOperationIds: ['deleteAll'],   // Exclude these operationIds
    excludeDeprecated: true,              // Exclude deprecated operations
  }
}

Related Packages

• @cerios/openapi-core - Shared utilities
• @cerios/openapi-to-typescript - TypeScript type generation
• @cerios/openapi-to-zod - Zod schema generation
• @cerios/openapi-to-zod-playwright - Playwright client generation

License

MIT