Swaggerspect

Swaggerspect introspects python classes and functions and generates machine readable descriptions in the Swagger and JSON Schema syntaxes. Yes, this is an intentional misuse of swagger, as swagger is meant to document REST API:s, not python functions, and to a lesser degree, of JSON Schema.

The intended usage is to generate JSON that in turn can be sused to generate a simple user interface for the python functions or classes. In particular, this works out of the box with the json-editor web based JSON editor. Note that this library does not provide any framework to serve REST requests executing the functions in any generate JSON; but that is about 10 lines of code in your favourite web app framework (Django, Flask...).

Usage

To get a swagger specification fragment for a single function or class:

print(yaml.dump(swaggerspect.get_api(some_function_or_class)))

To get a full swagger definition for the methods of a class: print(yaml.dump(swaggerspect.get_apis("some_module_name.SomeClassName")))

To get a full swagger definition for a set of functions and classes, either listed in an entry point group, or available in a single module:

print(yaml.dump(swaggerspect.get_apis("my.entrypoint.group")))
print(yaml.dump(swaggerspect.get_apis("some_module_name")))

The same, but as a JSON schema for a single finction call, or a list of calls (multi=True):

print(yaml.dump(swaggerspect.swagger_to_json_schema(swaggerspect.get_apis("my.entrypoint.group"), multi=False)))

Notes and caveats:

• The default API parameters for a class, are its properties, not the parameters to __init__(), to generate the API parameters for __init__(), set api_type = "__init__" as a class variable on the class.
• Parameters of unknown types / types with no equivalent in JSON, that have default values, are hidden/ignored.
• A more elaborate schema for a type can be specified using a class variable json_schema containing a literal JSON Schema fragment.
• For types that can not be modified, the same can also be achieved using typing.Annotated with an annotation that has a property json_schema containing the literal JSON Schema fragment.
• Parameters of a class can be grouped into dictionaries in the schema, by sharing a common prefix (separated by __), and seting group_parameters=True in the call to get_apis.