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Musaffir
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8 years ago

REST API Document Generation with SoapUI

Hello,   This may sound like a weird question , but I wanted to give it a try   I started using soapUI some time back and already made a relatively bigger project with various REST API resource e...
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    HKosova
    8 years ago

    SoapUI 5.2+ includes the Swagger plugin that lets you export your project to a Swagger spec in the JSON or YAML format. You can then use Swagger UI to render the Swagger spec as interactive API docs - check out the demo at petstore.swagger.io.

     

    If you are interested in using Swagger for API documentation and/or API developent, also check out SwaggerHub - it's our cloud hosting for API specs, combined with collaboration features, versioning, privacy control, mock server, client/server generators, and integrations. A free plan is available.

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Musaffir
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Thank you Helen for the reply.

 

As I am on the open source version of SoapUI , I downloaded the swagger plugin and made it available to SoapUI explicitly.

I could see the 'Export swagger' option from the context of project in soapUI and I am able to export to json format as well.

 

But it seems not giving a nice out put as i expected when I parsed it with the Swagger UI.

 

My project has all a single rest api service having different resources end points.

 

And in the same project I have generated Test suites as well, so the project xml file it self is a huge one, will this cause a problem like what I am experiencing now ?

 

I was expecting I can simply export the spec file from my soapui project and pass it to swagger UI to get the documentation , instead of writing all the spec by hand :)

 

 

 

Warm Regards

Musaffir

 

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HKosova
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
8 years ago

Hi Musaffir,

 

Could you please elaborate what you mean by "it seems not giving a nice out put"? Can you post a screenshot?

 

Also, where did you download the plugin from? If you use SoapUI 5.2+, this plugin is included so there's no need to download anything. Just in case, the current version of the plugin is 2.2, if you downloaded an earlier version try this one instead:
https://github.com/SmartBear/soapui/blob/next/soapui-installer/src/BundlePlugins/soapui-swagger-plugin-2.2-dist.jar

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    Musaffir
    Contributor
    8 years ago

    Hi Helena,

     

    Thank you so much for the reply.

    I was using 5.2.1 version and for some reason I didn't see the swagger option there .

    Now I updated my soapUI to 5.3.0 and I see the option by default and I could export the swagger specification file , and was able to parse it to browsable documentation .

     

    Now am looking forward to make it a good api documentation

    Thanks again for the support , i will get back to you if i have any question in future :)

     

    Warm Regards

    Musaffir