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lang: en
title: 'OpenAPI generator'
keywords: LoopBack 4.0, LoopBack 4, OpenAPI, Swagger
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permalink: /doc/en/lb4/OpenAPI-generator.html
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### Synopsis

Generates artifacts from an OpenAPI spec into a LoopBack application.

```sh
lb4 openapi [<url>] [options]
```

### Options

- `--url`: URL or file path of the OpenAPI spec.
- `--validate`: Validate the OpenAPI spec. Default: false.

### Arguments

`<url>`: URL or file path of the OpenAPI spec. Type: String. Required: false.

### Supported OpenAPI spec versions

- [2.0 (a.k.a. Swagger)](https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/master/versions/2.0.md)
- [3.0.x (OpenAPI 3.0)](https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/master/versions/3.0.1.md)

Please note Swagger 2.0 specs are converted to OpenAPI 3.0 internally using
[swagger2openapi](https://www.npmjs.com/package/swagger2openapi).

### Interactive Prompts

The tool will prompt you for:

- **URL or file path of the OpenAPI spec** If the url or file path is supplied
  from the command line, the prompt is skipped.
- **Select controllers to be generated** You can select what controllers will be
  generated based on OpenAPI tags.

### Generated artifacts

The command generates the following artifacts:

1.  For each schema under `components.schemas`, a model class or type
    declaration is generated as `src/models/<model-or-type-name>.model.ts`.

Simple types, array types, composite types (allOf/anyOf/oneOf) are mapped to
TypeScript type declarations. Object types are mapped to TypeScript classes.

For example,

src/models/message.model.ts:

```ts
export type Message = string;
```

src/models/order-enum.model.ts:

```ts
export type OrderEnum = 'ascending' | 'descending';
```

src/models/comments.model.ts:

```ts
import {Comment} from './comment.model';
export type Comments = Comment[];
```

src/models/cart.model.ts:

```ts
import {model, property} from '@loopback/repository';
import {CartShippingZone} from './cart-shipping-zone.model';
import {CartStoreInfo} from './cart-store-info.model';
import {CartWarehouse} from './cart-warehouse.model';

/**
 * The model class is generated from OpenAPI schema - Cart
 * Cart
 */
@model({name: 'Cart'})
export class Cart {
  constructor(data?: Partial<Cart>) {
    if (data != null && typeof data === 'object') {
      Object.assign(this, data);
    }
  }

  @property({name: 'additional_fields'})
  additional_fields?: {};

  @property({name: 'custom_fields'})
  custom_fields?: {};

  @property({name: 'db_prefix'})
  db_prefix?: string;

  @property({name: 'name'})
  name?: string;

  @property({name: 'shipping_zones'})
  shipping_zones?: CartShippingZone[];

  @property({name: 'stores_info'})
  stores_info?: CartStoreInfo[];

  @property({name: 'url'})
  url?: string;

  @property({name: 'version'})
  version?: string;

  @property({name: 'warehouses'})
  warehouses?: CartWarehouse[];
}
```

src/models/id-type.model.ts:

```ts
export type IdType = string | number;
```

src/models/pet.model.ts:

```ts
import {NewPet} from './new-pet.model.ts';
export type Pet = NewPet & {id: number};
```

2.  The generator groups operations (`paths.<path>.<verb>`) by tags. If no tag
    is present, it defaults to `OpenApi`. For each tag, a controller class is
    generated as `src/controllers/<tag-name>.controller.ts` to hold all
    operations with the same tag.

Controller class names are derived from tag names. The `x-controller-name`
property of an operation can be used to customize the controller name. Method
names are derived from `operationId`s. They can be configured using
`x-operation-name`.

For example,

```ts
import {operation, param} from '@loopback/rest';
import {DateTime} from '../models/date-time.model';

/**
 * The controller class is generated from OpenAPI spec with operations tagged
 * by account
 *
 */
export class AccountController {
  constructor() {}

  /**
   * Get list of carts.
   */
  @operation('get', '/account.cart.list.json')
  async accountCartList(
    @param({name: 'params', in: 'query'}) params: string,
    @param({name: 'exclude', in: 'query'}) exclude: string,
    @param({name: 'request_from_date', in: 'query'}) request_from_date: string,
    @param({name: 'request_to_date', in: 'query'}) request_to_date: string,
  ): Promise<{
    result?: {
      carts?: {
        cart_id?: string;
        id?: string;
        store_key?: string;
        total_calls?: string;
        url?: string;
      }[];
      carts_count?: number;
    };
    return_code?: number;
    return_message?: string;
  }> {
    throw new Error('Not implemented');
  }

  /**
   * Update configs in the API2Cart database.
   */
  @operation('put', '/account.config.update.json')
  async accountConfigUpdate(
    @param({name: 'db_tables_prefix', in: 'query'}) db_tables_prefix: string,
    @param({name: 'client_id', in: 'query'}) client_id: string,
    @param({name: 'bridge_url', in: 'query'}) bridge_url: string,
    @param({name: 'store_root', in: 'query'}) store_root: string,
    @param({name: 'shared_secret', in: 'query'}) shared_secret: string,
  ): Promise<{
    result?: {
      updated_items?: number;
    };
    return_code?: number;
    return_message?: string;
  }> {
    throw new Error('Not implemented');
  }

  /**
   * List webhooks that was not delivered to the callback.
   */
  @operation('get', '/account.failed_webhooks.json')
  async accountFailedWebhooks(
    @param({name: 'count', in: 'query'}) count: number,
    @param({name: 'start', in: 'query'}) start: number,
    @param({name: 'ids', in: 'query'}) ids: string,
  ): Promise<{
    result?: {
      all_failed_webhook?: string;
      webhook?: {
        entity_id?: string;
        time?: DateTime;
        webhook_id?: number;
      }[];
    };
    return_code?: number;
    return_message?: string;
  }> {
    throw new Error('Not implemented');
  }
}
```

### OpenAPI Examples

Try out the following specs or your own with `lb4 openapi`:

- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/master/examples/v3.0/petstore-expanded.yaml
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/master/examples/v3.0/uspto.yaml
- https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/api2cart.com/1.0.0/swagger.json
- https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/amazonaws.com/codecommit/2015-04-13/swagger.json

For more real world OpenAPI specs, see https://api.apis.guru/v2/list.json.