A model in swagger is a class. But you may want to have some configuration for your models.

Note :- No configuration is required to use a class as model.

Fortjs-Swagger provides following configuration -

• Optional Property
• Ignore Property
• Example

Let's see what are the uses of these configuration & how to use -

Consider a model "User" which has following structure -

class User {
    id: string;

    name : String;
    address: string;
    gender: string;

    isValidUser : Function;
}

OptionalProperty

Consider the property id in the model "User" is a primary key which means its automatically generated, In that case -

• id is not required in a "POST" request, since new record will be created and new id will be generated for that request.

• But it can be a required field in "PUT" request to identify the record.

So from above statement we found that id is sometimes required & sometimes not. For this condition - we can use decorator OptionalProperty which will mark the field as optional in swagger doc.

IgnoreProperty

Now let's focus on property isValidUser, its a method which is being used internally in the application but it doesn't need to be specified in the swagger doc. So we can use decorator IgnoreProperty which will ignore this property.

After changes - our class will look something like this -

import { IgnoreProperty, OptionalProperty } from "fortjs-swagger";

class User {

    @OptionalProperty
    id: string;

    name : String;
    address: string;
    gender: string;

    @IgnoreProperty
    isValidUser : Function;
}

Example

Fortjs-Swagger calls getExample to generate the example for your model.

e.g - Let's see how we can provide an example for our model "User"

import { IgnoreProperty, OptionalProperty, SwaggerModel } from "fortjs-swagger";

class User implements SwaggerModel {

    @OptionalProperty
    id: string;

    name : String;
    address: string;
    gender: string;

    @IgnoreProperty
    isValidUser : Function;

    // initialize the fields which we want to show in example  
    getExample(){
        this.id = 0;
        this.name = "ujjwal";
        this.address = "Planet earth";
        this.gender = "male";
    }
}