expand-swagger-refs

Automatically expand $ref values in your Swagger schema:

• From a function
• From a file
• From stdin
• Zero dependencies

Install

npm install expand-swagger-refs

NOTE: If you want to use the file or stdin options, you may want to install globally with -g

Module functions

Importing the module provides 2 methods for expansion, with or without mutation:

const { expand, expanded } = require('expand-swagger-refs');
const schema = require('./api/swagger.json');

// Create a copy of the schema, with $ref values expanded: 
const expandedSchema = expanded(schema);

// Or expand the schema object in-place (mutates the object):
expand(schema)

stdin > stdout

With the module installed globally, the swagger-expand command is available and will accept valid JSON to stdin:

swagger-expand < swagger.json

The expanded result is written to stdout:

swagger-expand < swagger.json > expanded.json

File input

The swagger-expand command also accepts a filepath as an input:

swagger-expand ~/lol/swagger.json

By default the expanded result will be written adjacent to the input file with -expanded added to the basename. Eg, the input above would write the result to ~/lol/swagger-expanded.json. Absolute and relative paths are supported.

You can tell swagger-expand to overwrite the input file with the expanded result using the -o option:

swagger-expand ~/rofl/swagger.json -o