Tuesday, 8 May 2018

using swagger hub to document your orchestrations

I recently did a post on how you can use orchestration discovery, which is a nice way to get orchestration definitions from JDE.

Recently swaggerhub released the ability to create swagger definition - well at least a template from a REST call.  So, of course I decided to see what it would do with an orchestration.

https://inspector.swagger.io/builder/builder is the site you can use to call your orchestration and get a nice swagger definition of the API.

Of course, nothing is free.If you want to export this definition to swagger, you need to make it public or your need to pay for a subscription.  I decided to risk it, but it also seems that swagger leaves the entire request (including username and password) in the template - so you might want to get in there a remove it.

The other problem I found with swaggerhub (GDPR does not exist there?) is that I cannot seem to delete the definition.

I end up with:

swagger: '2.0'info:  description: defaultDescription  version: '0.1'  title: defaultTitlepaths:  /orchestrator/20180327_AddAddressBook:    post:      consumes:        - application/json      produces:        - text/html      parameters:        - in: body          name: body          required: false          schema:            $ref: '#/definitions/Model0'          x-examples:            application/json: |-              {                  "username":"SHANNONM",                  "password":"",                "inputs" : [ {                  "name" : "inputAddressDescription",                  "value" : "Shannon Moire"                }, {                  "name" : "inputAddressType",                  "value" : "E"                }, {                  "name" : "inputLongAddressNumber",                  "value" : "45674564551"                } ]              }      responses:        '200':          description: Definition generated from Swagger Inspectordefinitions:  Model0:    properties:      username:        type: string      password:        type: string      inputs:        type: array        items:          $ref: '#/definitions/Inputs'  Inputs:    properties:      name:        type: string      value:        type: string

As my definition.


It's not perfect, as the key:value pairs for the parameters mean something in JDE, so there might be some massage required - but a great start to creating swagger defs for orchestrations!

If you want to take a look at my definition, you can do so here:

We can all hope for a better described and easier way of enterprise real time integration!

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