JSON Schema to OpenAPI Schema

A little NodeJS package to convert JSON Schema to OpenAPI Schema Objects.

Features

• converts JSON Schema Draft 00 Wright (a.k.a draft v5) to OpenAPI 3.0 Schema Object
• switches type: ['foo', 'null'] to type: foo and nullable: true
• supports deep structures with nested allOfs etc.
• switches patternProperties to x-patternProperties
• converts dependencies to an allOf + oneOf OpenAPI-valid equivalent

Installation

npm install --save json-schema-to-openapi-schema

Usage

Here's a small example to get the idea:

const toOpenApi = require('json-schema-to-openapi-schema');

const schema = {
  '$schema': 'http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#',
  type: ['string', 'null'],
  format: 'date-time',
};

(async () => {
  const convertedSchema = await toOpenApi(schema);
  console.log(convertedSchema);
})();

The example prints out

{
  type: 'string',
  format: 'date-time',
  nullable: true
}

Options

The function accepts options object as the second argument.

cloneSchema (boolean)

If set to false, converts the provided schema in place. If true, clones the schema by converting it to JSON and back. The overhead of the cloning is usually negligible. Defaults to true.

dereference (boolean)

If set to true, all local and remote references (http/https and file) $refs will be dereferenced. Defaults to false.

Why?

OpenAPI is often described as an extension of JSON Schema, but both specs have changed over time and grown independently. OpenAPI v2 was based on JSON Schema draft v4 with a long list of deviations, but OpenAPI v3 shrank that list, upping their support to draft v4 and making the list of discrepancies shorter. Despite OpenAPI v3 closing the gap, the issue of JSON Schema divergence has not been resolved fully.

Carefully writing JSON Schema for your data model kiiiinda works, but it is possible to write JSON Schema that creates invalid OpenAPI, and vice versa. For more on this, read the article OpenAPI and JSON Schema Divergence.

This tool sets out to allow folks to convert from JSON Schema (their one source of truth for everything) to OpenAPI (a thing for HTML docs and making SDKs).

Versions

• From: JSON Schema Draft v5 †
• To: OpenAPI 3.0

† Draft v5 is also known as Draft Wright 00, as the drafts are often named after the author, and this was the first one by A. Wright. Amongst other things, draft v5 aimed to rewrite the meta files, but the experiment failed, meaning we need to continue to use the draft v4 metafiles. Ugh.

TODO

• Support later JSON Schema drafts via cloudflare/json-schema-transformer when it adds that functionality

Converting Back

To convert the other way, check out openapi-schema-to-json-schema, which this package was based on.

Tests

To run the test-suite:

npm test

Thanks

• Stoplight for donating time and effort to this project, and many more.
• mikunn for creating openapi-schema-to-json-schema which this is based on.
• Phil Sturgeon for flipping that conversion script about face.
• WeWork for giving this a home for a while.
• All Contributors