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scanon
New Contributor
5 years ago

Adding a reference to a schema stored on my file system

I'm trying to use the swagger 3.1 feature allowing to store the data schema in an external file. The file is stored on my local drive. I got the following error message:   Resolver error at co...
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scanon
New Contributor

I am using the swagger editor v3.0.1

 

components:
  schemas:
    Person: $ref: "//PersonProfile.json"

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RonRatovsky
Moderator
5 years ago

Swagger Editor, being a browser-based application, cannot access your file system. This is a browser/security limitation. If you want to access the file using a reference, you'll have to host it (even locally).