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ZQ-PSK01
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5 years ago

No error in swagger-parser when $ref to nothing

I encountered a problem in swagger-parser where a $ref to an object that does not exist at all did not throw an error - is this a bug, a configuration error, or do I need to run validation with something else first?

  • Hi, I tested this with the following spec:

    openapi: 3.0.0
    info:
    version: 1.0.0
    title: Issue 1190
    license:
    name: Apache-2.0
    url: 'http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html'
    paths:
    /example:
    get:
    operationId: example
    responses:
    '200':
    description: successful operation
    content:
    'application/json':
    schema:
    $ref: "#/components/schemas/XomeObj"
    components:
    schemas:
    SomeObj1:
    type: object
    properties:
    lorem:
    type: array
    minItems: 1
    additionalProperties: false
    items:
    type: object
    properties:
    firstName:
    type: string
    lastName:
    type: string  

     And parser threw a warning:

    - attribute paths.'/example'(get).responses.200.content.'application/json'.schema.#/components/schemas/XomeObj is missing

    Please try updating to the latest parser version.

    And let us know if this fixes the issue, or if the case happening to you is different.