OpenAPI & Docs UI

Every generated <Model>Resource implements openapi.OpenAPIProvider via a generated OpenAPI() method, built from the same IR the rest of the generated file is built from — request/response schemas, routes, and auth requirements. Nothing here is hand-written OpenAPI, and nothing here can drift from what the handlers actually do, because both are generated from the same source of truth.

How the document is assembled

goninja.NewAPI(title, version) creates an API — the framework’s application entry point. app.Mount(mux, resources...) calls Register(mux) and OpenAPI() on each resource in turn: Register wires the resource’s routes onto the mux, and OpenAPI() returns three things — the resource’s paths, its schemas, and its security schemes — which API merges into one document as each resource is added.

mux := http.NewServeMux()
app := goninja.NewAPI("bookstore", "0.1.0")

app.Mount(mux,
    api.NewTaskResource(db),
    api.NewAuthorResource(db),
    api.NewBookResource(db),
)

app.Spec() returns the merged openapi.Spec at any point after mounting. You won’t normally call it directly — MountDocs (below) serves it — but it’s there if you need the raw document for something else (writing it to a file for an external tool, for instance).

Mounting the docs UI

One call serves the merged document as JSON plus a rendered UI, both fully embedded:

app.MountDocs(mux, "/docs", docsui.SwaggerUI())

MountDocs serves the UI at path + "/" and issues a 301 redirect from the bare path to it. This isn’t cosmetic: a DocsUI’s Index HTML references its Assets by relative filename, and those only resolve correctly against the trailing-slash URL — visiting /docs directly (no trailing slash) would otherwise leave the browser resolving swagger-ui.css against the wrong base path.

Assets are vendored under docsui/swagger-ui/ and docsui/redoc/ and served via go:embed — there is no external CDN dependency, so the docs UI works offline and isn’t subject to a third party changing or removing a hosted asset out from under you.

Swagger UI listing every route grouped by model

Swapping the UI

ui is the docsui.DocsUI interface, not a hardcoded renderer, so switching renderers is a one-line change:

app.MountDocs(mux, "/docs", docsui.ReDoc())

ReDoc three-pane layout

Both ship built in with their own vendored assets. Pick whichever fits your team — Swagger UI’s try-it-out console is often preferred for day-to-day API exploration, ReDoc’s three-pane layout for a cleaner reference document.

Custom actions are documented too

An Action with a non-empty Summary (see Adding Custom Routes Beyond CRUD) gets a path entry in the generated OpenAPI() output alongside the CRUD routes, tagged the same way. examples/prototype’s POST /books/{id}/publish shows up in the UI exactly like the generated routes around it, including its id path parameter and declared 200/404 responses:

Expanded POST /books/{id}/publish operation showing its id path parameter and 200/404 responses

Leave Summary empty on an Action to mount it without documenting it — useful for an internal-only route you don’t want showing up in the public spec.

Implementing your own DocsUI

docsui.DocsUI is a two-method interface:

type DocsUI interface {
    Index(specURL string) []byte
    Assets() (fs.FS, string)
}

Index returns the HTML page for the UI, given the URL the JSON spec is served from; Assets returns a filesystem of static assets (CSS, JS) plus the URL prefix they’re served under. Implement it to wire in a renderer other than Swagger UI or ReDoc — SwaggerUI()/ReDoc() are convenience constructors, not the only supported option.

Grouping routes

Every operation in a resource’s fragment carries BaseResource.OpenAPITags() as its OpenAPI tags — this is what determines how a rendered UI groups a resource’s routes together. It defaults to the model name; override it before Register:

bookAPI := api.NewBookResource(db)
bookAPI.SetOpenAPITags("Catalog")

Excluding a resource from the document

To keep a resource’s routes mounted while leaving it out of the merged spec, call ExcludeFromDocs() before passing it to Mount:

internalAPI := api.NewAuditResource(db)
internalAPI.ExcludeFromDocs()

app.Mount(mux, api.NewTaskResource(db), internalAPI)

Mount checks this via BaseResource.DocsExcluded(). To skip documenting a resource entirely and bypass Mount’s bookkeeping altogether, call its Register(mux) directly instead of going through Mount.

Security schemes come from the same objects that enforce auth

openapi.Operation carries a Security field, and the document’s Components.SecuritySchemes are populated from the same goninja.Authenticator values passed to Config.DefaultAuth.Auth or a resource’s ResourceConfig.Auth overrides — not a separate, hand-maintained description of your auth scheme. A generated OpenAPI() resolves each route’s required Authenticators through the identical logic Protect uses to enforce them at request time, so what the document says is protected and what actually is protected cannot diverge. See Global Auth and Middleware for how Authenticators are configured.

goninja does not generate example values for request/response bodies. Swagger UI synthesizes its own sample values from the schema types at render time — that’s the UI’s behavior, not something goninja emits into the document.

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