Document Routes

Sanic-OpenAPI support different ways to document APIs includes:

• routes of Sanic instance
• routes of Blueprint instance
• routes of HTTPMethodView under Sanic instance
• routes of HTTPMethodView under Bluebprint instance

But with some exceptions:

• Sanic-OpenAPI does not document routes with OPTIONS method.
• Sanic-OpenAPI does not document routes which registered by static().

This section will explain how to document routes with above cases.

Basic Routes

To use Sanic-OpenAPI with basic routes, you only have to register openapi2_blueprint and it will be all set.

For example:

from sanic import Sanic
from sanic.response import json

from sanic_openapi import openapi2_blueprint

app = Sanic()
app.blueprint(openapi2_blueprint)


@app.route("/")
async def test(request):
    return json({"hello": "world"})


if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=8000)

As you can see the result at http://localhost:8000/swagger, the Swagger is documented a route / with GET method.

If you want to add some additional information to this route, you can use other decorators like summary(), description(), and etc.

Blueprint Routes

You can aldo document routes under any Blueprint like this:

from sanic import Blueprint, Sanic
from sanic.response import json

from sanic_openapi import openapi2_blueprint

app = Sanic()
app.blueprint(openapi2_blueprint)

bp = Blueprint("bp", url_prefix="/bp")


@bp.route("/")
async def test(request):
    return json({"hello": "world"})


app.blueprint(bp)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=8000)

The result looks like:

When you document routes under Blueprint instance, they will be document with tags which using the Blueprint’s name.

Class-Based Views Routes

In Sanic, it provides a class-based views named HTTPMethodView. You can document routes under HTTPMethodView like:

from sanic import Sanic
from sanic.response import text
from sanic.views import HTTPMethodView

from sanic_openapi import openapi2_blueprint

app = Sanic()
app.blueprint(openapi2_blueprint)


class SimpleView(HTTPMethodView):
    def get(self, request):
        return text("I am get method")

    def post(self, request):
        return text("I am post method")

    def put(self, request):
        return text("I am put method")

    def patch(self, request):
        return text("I am patch method")

    def delete(self, request):
        return text("I am delete method")

    def options(self, request): # This will not be documented.
        return text("I am options method")


app.add_route(SimpleView.as_view(), "/")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=8000)

And the result:

Please note that Sanic-OpenAPI will not document any routes with OPTIONS method.

The HTTPMethodView can also be registered under Blueprint:

from sanic import Blueprint, Sanic
from sanic.response import text
from sanic.views import HTTPMethodView

from sanic_openapi import openapi2_blueprint

app = Sanic()
app.blueprint(openapi2_blueprint)

bp = Blueprint("bp", url_prefix="/bp")


class SimpleView(HTTPMethodView):
    def get(self, request):
        return text("I am get method")

    def post(self, request):
        return text("I am post method")

    def put(self, request):
        return text("I am put method")

    def patch(self, request):
        return text("I am patch method")

    def delete(self, request):
        return text("I am delete method")

    def options(self, request):  # This will not be documented.
        return text("I am options method")


bp.add_route(SimpleView.as_view(), "/")
app.blueprint(bp)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=8000)

The result: