swagger-php VS swagger-ui

Native PHP attributes allowed OpenAPI markup to be much more compact than in DocBlocks. The resulting openapi.yaml is created with swagger-php and used to test the API.

First, swagger-php generates openapi.yaml based on code attributes, and then the spectator checks API responses to match openapi specification. The popular L5-Swagger is redundant in this case, as it is based on the same swagger-php with the addition of Swagger UI.

I do this except use https://github.com/zircote/swagger-php for writing the open api spec. I can enter the Spatie Data Object classes into the parameters, responses, and properties. Like op said though, it's a lot of comments and stuff to keep updated. Entirely using reflection (or reflection plus ability to manually specify certain extra things) like you're talking about sounds great.

wagger-php is a php swagger annotation and parsing library which generates interactive OpenAPI documentation for your RESTful API using doctrine annotations. - GitHub - zircote/swagger-php

The second one is L5 Swagger, a popular package bringing Swagger PHP and Swagger UI to Laravel. We actually don't need Swagger PHP here, as it uses Doctrine annotations to generate OpenAPI definitions and we're going to manually write our own instead. We do need Swagger UI, however, and the package conveniently adapts it to work with Laravel (the -W option is simply here to also update related dependencies, to avoid conflicts).

I need to create REST API documentation for a legacy Zend Framework 2 project. I tried to use zircote/swagger-php . It works with the new zf2 skeleton project but it fails when I use it in the legacy zf2 project. It adds Symfony/polyfill-php80 and it generates to issue. Anybody could help me on this issue. If you can suggest another package for API documentation also be a great help. Thanks.

It is possible that there is a library doing this already. I am not PHP coder so would like to avoid complex frameworks and stick with barebone solution doing only this Swagger/JSON stuff. For swagger, I decided to go with zircote/swagger-php. I would like my schema and model classes to have nice Swagger doc and at the same time I can use them to prepare objects to interact with the DB by loading/dumping from JSON.

I'm using this library to generate an open api 3 (swagger) yaml file. You add @OA markup to your doc blocks and then can have this generate a file or produce it on the fly. It's a bit sparse on documentation but is working really well with my MVC set up for a REST API I'm developing. https://github.com/zircote/swagger-php

I like the swagger way of generating schema's by annotating classes.. Swagger/OpenApi 3.0 uses a slightly modified subset of json schema, would that be of use to you?

Swagger is a fantastic open-source toolset that's perfect for developing and describing RESTful APIs. It offers you a user-friendly interface to understand a service's capabilities without needing to dig into the code. It even provides a way for you to interact directly with the API, which means you get to test its functionality.

The API had an OpenAPI endpoint built with Swagger where I could download a JSON specification file for the API.

Swagger is a widely used tool for documenting and testing APIs.

Swagger is an open-source software framework that implements the OpenAPI Specification—an API description format for REST APIs. The OpenAPI Specification defines a standard, language-agnostic interface to HTTP APIs, enabling both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the API.

Mocking and Testing: Once the API design is complete, developers create mock APIs to simulate the behavior of the actual services. This early testing phase helps identify any issues or mismatches between design and implementation before substantial development efforts are invested. Tools like Postman or Swagger are invaluable for API testing and validation.

import fp from "fastify-plugin"; import swagger from "@fastify/swagger"; export default fp(async (fastify) => { fastify.register(swagger, { openapi: { info: { tags: [ { name: "drinks", description: "Drink-related endpoints", externalDocs: { description: "Find out more", url: "http://swagger.io", }, }, ], }, }, }); });

A very requested feature for Sharkio was the auto-generation of OpenAPI documentation using the recorded HTTP requests - to create standardized documentation.

Automation QA is a lot of the same duties as manual QA, but instead of writing and executing the test plans manually, we create and update automated tests that can run those validations programmatically, for example by using Selenium to automatically fill out and submit forms for a web application, or using Postman and/or Swagger to generate an API conversation test.