Overview

Provides OpenAPI documentation generated from code for Flask APIs built around marshmallow schemas.

This hackish and organically grown (TM) package was created because no other similar projects worked exactly the way I wanted them.

You will probably be better served by some other, properly maintained project with similar purpose:

• flasgger
• flask-openapi3

If you still want to use it, welcome aboard :-) and read on!

Installation

pip install flask-marshmallow-openapi

What it does?

Searches your codebase for marshmallow schemas and :medal_military: decorated :medal_military: Flask routes. For example:

from flask_marshmallow_openapi import Securities, open_api

from ..views import NewPasswordSchema, LoginResponseSchema


@blueprint.route("/reset_password/<token>", methods=["POST"])
@open_api.post(
    request_schema=NewPasswordSchema,
    response_schema=LoginResponseSchema,
    operation_id="reset_password_finalize",
    security=Securities.no_token,
    additional_parameters=[
        {
            "name": "token",
            "in": "path",
            "required": True,
            "allowEmptyValue": False,
            "schema": {"type": "string"},
        }
    ],
)
def reset_password_confirm(token):
    ...

Using these, it constructs OpenAPI swagger.json and serves it. It also includes and serves ReDoc and SwaggerUI documentation viewers.

Full example

First we need some data:

from dataclasses import dataclass

@dataclass
class Book:
    id: int
    title: str
    publisher: str
    isbn: str

Then we need some marshmallow schemas:

import marshmallow as ma


class SchemaOpts(ma.SchemaOpts):
    def __init__(self, meta, *args, **kwargs):
        self.tags = getattr(meta, "tags", [])
        self.url_id_field = getattr(meta, "url_id_field", None)
        super().__init__(meta, *args, **kwargs)


class BookSchema(ma.Schema):
    OPTIONS_CLASS = SchemaOpts

    class Meta:
        url_id_field = "id"
        tags = ["Books"]
        description = "Schema for Book model"

    id = ma.fields.Integer(as_string=True)
    title = ma.fields.String(
        allow_none=False, metadata={"description": "book.title description"}
    )
    publisher = ma.fields.String(allow_none=False)
    isbn = ma.fields.String(allow_none=False)


class BookCreateSchema(ma.Schema):
    OPTIONS_CLASS = SchemaOpts

    class Meta(BookSchema.Meta):
        pass

    title = ma.fields.String(allow_none=False, required=True)


class BookUpdateSchema(ma.Schema):
    OPTIONS_CLASS = SchemaOpts

    class Meta(BookSchema.Meta):
        pass

    id = ma.fields.Integer(as_string=True, dump_only=True)
    isbn = ma.fields.String(allow_none=False, dump_only=True)

Then an Flask app and some :medal_military: decorated :medal_military: routes:

import flask
from flask_marshmallow_openapi import open_api

app = flask.Flask(__name__)


@app.route("/books", methods=["GET"])
@open_api.get(BookSchema, "bookList", many=True)
def books_list():
    return "<p>Hello, World!</p>"


@app.route("/books/<int:book_id>", methods=["GET"])
@open_api.get(BookSchema, "bookDetail", many=False)
def books_detail(book_id):
    """
    description: |
        Look I can Markdown!

        | foo | bar | baz |
        | --- | --- | --- |
        | 1   | 2   | 3   |
        | 4   | 5   | 6   |
    """
    return "<p>Hello, World!</p>"


@app.route("/books", methods=["POST"])
@open_api.post(BookCreateSchema, BookSchema, "bookCreate")
def books_create():
    return "<p>Hello, World!</p>"


@app.route("/books/<int:book_id>", methods=["PATCH"])
@open_api.patch(BookUpdateSchema, BookSchema, "bookUpdate")
def books_update(book_id):
    return "<p>Hello, World!</p>"

Finally, we need to initialize OpenAPI middleware for our app:

import importlib.resources
import yaml

def load_swagger_json_template(api_name: str, api_version: str):
    text = flask.render_template_string(
        importlib.resources.files(app_resources)
        .joinpath("open_api.template.yaml")
        .read_text(),
        api_name=api_name,
    )

    data = yaml.full_load(text)
    data["info"] = dict()
    data["version"] = api_version
    return data


def load_changelog_md():
    return importlib.resources.files(app_resources).joinpath("CHANGELOG.md").read_text()


conf = OpenAPISettings(
    api_version="v1",
    api_name="Foobar API",
    app_package_name="foobar_api",
    mounted_at="/v1",
    swagger_json_template_loader=load_swagger_json_template,
    swagger_json_template_loader_kwargs={"api_name": "Foobar API", "api_version": "v1"},
    changelog_md_loader=load_changelog_md,
)

docs = OpenAPI(config=conf)
docs.init_app(app)

app_package_name must be importable Python package name. It will be searched for any marshmallow.Schema subclasses. These will be added as OpenAPI components.schemas.

Installed middleware will add some routes to serve ReDoc, SwaggerUI and swagger.json:

• ReDoc
• SwaggerUI
• swagger.json
• swagger.yaml

If you provide (optional) changelog_md_loader, API docs will include routes:

• /v1/docs/changelog
• /v1/docs/static/changelog.md

If you provide (optional) load_swagger_json_template, it will be used as basis for constructing swagger.json. Template could look like this:

---
title: {{ api_name }}
openapi_version: 3.0.2

servers:
  - url: http://127.0.0.1:5000
    description: |
      Flask dev server running locally on developer machine

  - url: https://foo.example.com
    description: Live API server

components:
  securitySchemes:
    access_token:
      scheme: bearer
      type: http
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: |
        This endpoint requires [JWT](https://jwt.io/) access token.
    refresh_token:
      scheme: bearer
      type: http
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: |
        This endpoint requires [JWT](https://jwt.io/) refresh token.

tags:
  - name: Books
    description: |
      Common documentation for all book related routes.

Serving static docs via ngnix

Add collect-static command to your app:

import shutil

import click
import flask

@app.cli.command("collect_static")
@click.argument(
    "destination_dir",
    nargs=1,
    type=click.Path(file_okay=False, dir_okay=True, writable=True, resolve_path=True),
    required=True,
)
def collect_static_command(destination_dir):
    docs.collect_static(destination_dir)
    shutil.copytree(
        flask.current_app.static_folder, destination_dir, dirs_exist_ok=True
    )
    click.echo(f"Static files collected into {destination_dir}.")

Configure nginx:

server {
    # ...

    location ^~ /v1/static {
        alias /home/user/static;
        try_files $uri $uri.html =404;
    }

    location ^~ /v1/docs {
        alias /home/user/static/docs;
        try_files $uri $uri.html =404;
    }

    # ...
}

Whenever deploying the app, call:

flask --app foobar_api collect-static /home/user/static