Swagger $ref won't work
Hey,
I started to use swagger with swagger-ui-express and swagger-jsdoc to auto document my existing api, which is written with nodejs and express (like described here - example).I came across a p...
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Hey, I came across this article earlier and unfortunately, it wasn't helpful for my problem.
Hi lizat2110,
I'm not familiar with swagger-ui-express as it's not one of our projects, but it appears that it does not support $refs:
>> this module will only deal with one full swagger document
You'll probably need to use a preprocessor such as json-refs to resolve the $refs and then pass the full resolved spec to swagger-ui-express. You can find an example of using json-refs in the "Tools" section here: https://azimi.me/2015/07/16/split-swagger-into-smaller-files.html#tools
