OSF API Documentation

The Open API specification and source code for the documenting the Open Science Framework API lives here.

For development:

• npm install
• npm run build (to build a new distribution under the dist/ folder)
• npm run serve (to serve the built result at localhost:8090) note: to change the port, update the connect gulp task in gulpfile.js

Spec Validation

• npm install -g swagger-cli
• swagger validate swagger.yaml (bundles and validates the given specification against the OpenAPI 2.0 schema and spec)
• swagger bundle -o <output_file_name> swagger.yaml (bundles a multi-file specification into a single JSON file)

OpenAPI Specification

• The openapi specification for the OSF API lives in swagger-spec/swagger.yaml and contains references to many YAML files in the swagger-spec directory.

  Editing the OpenAPI Specification

  • As a general rule, the swagger.yaml file should be kept as minimal as possible, meaning $refs to other YAML files should be utilized over inline endpoint and model definitions.
  • Each collection of related endpoints is contained in it's own folder in the swagger-spec directory (i.e. swagger-spec/preprints/), with each unique API endpoint having it's own YAML file (i.e. detail.yaml and list.yaml for /preprints/ and /preprints/{preprint_id}/, respectively).
  • The specification should always conform to the official OpenAPI specification (v2.0), described in detail here.