# Swagger SDK The [ColdBox SwaggerSDK](https://github.com/coldbox-modules/swagger-sdk) is a dependency of the Relax module and is available to allow you to provided consumers of your API with information on paths, methods, expectations and available parameters. Hypermedia design patterns, usually provided within the content of `OPTIONS` requests to your endpoint, allow you to provide autodiscovery and consumption assistance on-the-fly. For convenience, built-in methods are available within Relax to simplify the loading and parsing of your existing API documentation. An example, leveraging an `OPTIONS` request for an endpoint (and using the conventions of the [Coldbox REST API skeleton](https://github.com/coldbox-templates/rest)), might look like: Routing config: ``` //Pet Routes - collections and additions addRoute( pattern = "api/pets", handler = "Pets", action = { "GET" : "index", "POST" : "create", "PUT" : "onInvalidHTTPMethod", "PATCH" : "onInvalidHTTPMethod", "DELETE" : "delete", "OPTIONS": "options" } ); //Pet Routes - entity methods addRoute( pattern = "api/pets/:id", handler = "Pets", action = { "GET" : "get", "POST" : "onInvalidHTTPMethod", "PUT" : "update", "PATCH" : "update", "DELETE" : "delete", "OPTIONS": "options" } ); ``` Now we add an `options` method to our "Pets" handler to serve the documentation ``` public function options( event, rc, prc ){ petOptions = getInstance( "APIService@relax" ).loadAPI( 'petstore' ); if( structKeyExists( rc, "id" )){ prc.response.setData( petOptions.paths[ "/pets/{id}" ] ); } else { prc.response.setData( petOptions.paths[ "/pets" ] ); } prc.response.setStatusCode( STATUS.SUCCESS ); } ``` This will serve information on the requested path of the `petstore` API as a JSON response to an `OPTIONS` request (using the collection example): ``` "/pets": { "get": { "description": "Returns all pets from the system that the user has access to\nNam sed condimentum est. 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Pellentesque vitae felis pretium, pulvinar elit eu, euismod sapien.\n", "operationId": "findPets", "parameters": [ { "name": "tags", "in": "query", "description": "tags to filter by", "required": false, "type": "array", "collectionFormat": "csv", "items": { "type": "string" } }, { "name": "limit", "in": "query", "description": "maximum number of results to return", "required": false, "type": "integer", "format": "int32" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "pet response", "schema": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "allOf": [ { "type": "object", "required": [ "name" ], "properties": { "name": { "type": "string" }, "tag": { "type": "string" } } }, { "required": [ "id" ], "properties": { "id": { "type": "integer", "format": "int64" } } } ] } } }, "default": { "description": "unexpected error", "schema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "code", "message" ], "properties": { "code": { "type": "integer", "format": "int32" }, "message": { "type": "string" } } } }, "x-resourceId": "a9f0a3a63fe6b5bd954760c6ac09e85c" }, "x-resourceId": "2243b9a60c66378b60108a67ba948b1c" }, "post": { "description": "Creates a new pet in the store. Duplicates are allowed", "operationId": "addPet", "parameters": [ { "name": "pet", "in": "body", "description": "Pet to add to the store", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "name" ], "properties": { "name": { "type": "string" }, "tag": { "type": "string" } } } } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "pet response", "schema": { "type": "object", "allOf": [ { "type": "object", "required": [ "name" ], "properties": { "name": { "type": "string" }, "tag": { "type": "string" } } }, { "required": [ "id" ], "properties": { "id": { "type": "integer", "format": "int64" } } } ] } }, "default": { "description": "unexpected error", "schema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "code", "message" ], "properties": { "code": { "type": "integer", "format": "int32" }, "message": { "type": "string" } } } }, "x-resourceId": "a9f0a3a63fe6b5bd954760c6ac09e85c" }, "x-resourceId": "9b58c599cb38cb1caf7474178e5455df" }, "x-resourceId": "ce256990f68429fe5bbf34dd4676b0be" } ``` Hypermedia design patterns in your API responses, allow for self-discovery and ease development for API consumption. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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