JavaScript client library for consuming OpenAPI-enabled APIs with axios. Types included.

Features

• Create API clients from OpenAPI v3 definitions
• Client is configured in runtime. No generated code!
• Generate TypeScript definitions (.d.ts) for your APIs with full IntelliSense support
• Easy to use API to call API operations using JavaScript methods
  • client.getPet(1)
  • client.searchPets()
  • client.searchPets({ ids: [1, 2, 3] })
  • client.updatePet(1, payload)
• Built on top of the robust axios JavaScript library
• Isomorphic, works both in browser and Node.js

Documentation

New! OpenAPI Client Axios documentation is now found on openapistack.co

https://openapistack.co/docs/openapi-client-axios/intro

Quick Start

npm install --save axios openapi-client-axios

yarn add axios openapi-client-axios

With promises / CommonJS syntax:

1const OpenAPIClientAxios = require('openapi-client-axios').default;
2
3const api = new OpenAPIClientAxios({ definition: 'https://example.com/api/openapi.json' });
4api.init()
5  .then(client => client.getPetById(1))
6  .then(res => console.log('Here is pet id:1 from the api', res.data));

With async-await / ES6 syntax:

1import OpenAPIClientAxios from 'openapi-client-axios';
2
3const api = new OpenAPIClientAxios({ definition: 'https://example.com/api/openapi.json' });
4api.init();
5
6async function createPet() {
7  const client = await api.getClient();
8  const res = await client.createPet(null, { name: 'Garfield' });
9  console.log('Pet created', res.data);
10}

Client

OpenAPI Client Axios uses operationIds in OpenAPIv3 definitions to call API operations.

After initializing OpenAPIClientAxios, an axios client instance extended with OpenAPI capabilities is exposed.

Example:

1const api = new OpenAPIClientAxios({ definition: 'https://example.com/api/openapi.json' });
2api.init().then((client) => {
3  client.updatePet(1, { age: 12 });
4});

client is an axios instance initialized with baseURL from OpenAPI definitions and extended with extra operation methods for calling API operations.

It also has a reference to OpenAPIClientAxios at client.api

Operation methods

OpenAPIClientAxios operation methods take 3 arguments:

1client.operationId(parameters?, data?, config?)

Parameters

The first argument is used to pass parameters available for the operation.

1// GET /pets/{petId}
2client.getPet({ petId: 1 })

For syntactic sugar purposes, you can also specify a single implicit parameter value, in which case OpenAPIClientAxios will look for the first required parameter for the operation. Usually this is will be a path parameter.

1// GET /pets/{petId} - getPet
2client.getPet(1)

Alternatively, you can explicitly specify parameters in array form. This method allows you to set custom parameters not defined in the OpenAPI spec.

1// GET /pets?search=Garfield - searchPets
2client.searchPets([{ name: 'search', value: 'Garfield', in: 'query' }])

The type of the parameters can be any of:

• query
• header
• path
• cookie

Data

The second argument is used to pass the requestPayload

1// PUT /pets/1 - updatePet
2client.updatePet(1, { name: 'Odie' })

More complex payloads, such as Node.js streams or FormData supported by Axios can be used.

The first argument can be set to null if there are no parameters required for the operation.

1// POST /pets - createPet
2client.updatePet(null, { name: 'Garfield' })

Config object

The last argument is the config object.

The config object is an AxiosRequestConfig object. You can use it to override axios request config parameters, such as headers, timeout, withCredentials and many more.

1// POST /user - createUser
2client.createUser(null, { user: 'admin', pass: '123' }, { headers: { 'x-api-key': 'secret' } });

Paths Dictionary

OpenAPI Client Axios also allows calling API operations via their path and HTTP method, using the paths dictionary.

Example:

1client.paths['/pets'].get(); // GET /pets, same as calling client.getPets()
2client.paths['/pets'].post(); // POST /pets
3client.paths['/pets/{petId}'].put(1); // PUT /pets/1
4client.paths['/pets/{petId}/owner/{ownerId}'].get({ petId: 1, ownerId: 2 }) ; // GET /pets/1/owner/2

This allows calling operation methods without using their operationIds, which may be sometimes preferred.

Typesafe Clients

openapi-client-axios comes with a CLI command openapicmd typegen to generate Typescript types for type safety and code autocomplete.

npx openapicmd typegen ./openapi.yaml > src/types/openapi.d.ts

The output of typegen exports a type called Client, which can be used for instances created with OpenAPIClientAxios.

Both the api.getClient() and api.init() methods support passing in a Client type.

1import { Client as PetStoreClient } from './client.d.ts';
2
3const client = await api.init<PetStoreClient>();
4const client = await api.getClient<PetStoreClient>();

openapicmd typegen supports using both local and remote URLs for OpenAPI definition files.

$ npx openapicmd typegen ./petstore.yaml
$ npx openapicmd typegen https://petstore3.swagger.io/api/v3/openapi.json

Commercial support

For assistance with openapi-client-axios in your company, reach out at support@openapistack.co.

Contributing

OpenAPI Client Axios is Free and Open Source Software. Issues and pull requests are more than welcome!