swagger-proptypes

A simple library to transform Swagger model definitions into PropType specifications. You can use this as part of a testing framework.

Usage

If you have the JSON file from Swagger, you can use propsFromDefs() to get an object where each key is the model name, and the value is a the proptype definition:

import { propsFromDefs } from 'swagger-proptypes';
 
const swaggerJson;  // = {"swagger":"2.0","info": … }
const propTypes = propsFromDefs(swaggerJson.definitions);
 
// equivalent to:
{
  ModelA: PropTypes.exact({
    propOne: PropTypes.string,
    propTwo: PropTypes.number.isRequired
  }),
  ModelB: PropTypes.exact({
    propThree: PropTypes.bool,
    propFour: PropTypes.oneOf(['a', 'b', 'c'])
  })
}

To process a single definition, use propFromDef() instead:

import { propFromDef } from 'swagger-proptypes';
 
const swaggerDef = { type: 'array', items: { type: 'string' } };
const propType = propFromDef(swaggerDef);
 
// returns this:
 
PropTypes.arrayOf(PropTypes.string)

You can use request-promise-native or something like it to retrieve a Swagger JSON file. The definitions within can then be passed to propsFromDefs().

import rpn from 'request-promise-native';
import { propsFromDefs } from 'swagger-proptypes';
 
(async () => {
  const swaggerJson = await rpn('https://petstore.swagger.io/v2/swagger.json', { json: true });
  const propTypes = propsFromDefs(swaggerJson.definitions);
})();

To test proptypes without a React component, you can use checkPropTypes() in the prop-types package. Unfortunately that function does not produce errors; instead logs them to the console. It also only logs once per type of failure, which is not very helpful when trying to test objects systematically.

swagger-proptypes comes with the check() function, which will throw an error if an object fails proptype checks. It uses the original checkPropTypes() behind the scenes, so the validation logic is the same.

import { propFromDef, check } from 'swagger-proptypes';
 
const swaggerDef = { type: 'array', items: { type: 'string' } };
const propType = propFromDef(swaggerDef);
const anObject = {
  someProperty: ['one', 'two', 'three']
};
const anotherObject = {
  someProperty: ['one', 'two', 3]
};
 
check({ someProperty: propType }, anObject);  // Will pass
check({ someProperty: propType }, anotherObject);  // Will throw
 

Note that check() verifies the validity of the objects properties; not of the object itself. That is, if there are extraneous properties, they won't fail validation. If you want to throw an error in that case, use the checkExact() function instead. You must provide a name for the type of object being tested, so that validation messages make sense.

import { propFromDef, checkExact } from 'swagger-proptypes';
 
const swaggerDef = { type: 'array', items: { type: 'string' } };
const propType = propFromDef(swaggerDef);
 
const anObject = {
  someProperty: ['one', 'two']
};
const anotherObject = {
  someProperty: ['one', 'two'],
  extra: true,
};
 
checkExact('myObjectType', { someProperty: propType }, anObject);  // Will pass
checkExact('myObjectType', { someProperty: propType }, anotherObject);  // Will throw