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REST API application generator for Yii2, openapi 3.0 YAML -> Yii2.

Base on Gii, the Yii Framework Code Generator.

TLDR; what is this?

A code generator for OpenAPI and Yii Framework based PHP API application.

Input: OpenAPI 3.0 YAML or JSON (via cebe/php-openapi)

Output: Yii Framework Application with Controllers, Models, database schema

Features

Currently available features:

Generate Path mappings, Controllers and Actions for API Endpoints. CRUD Endpoints are ready-to-use, other Endpoints are generated as abstract functions that need to be implemented
Generate Models and validation based on OpenAPI Schema
Generate Database Schema from OpenAPI Schema
Generates Database Migrations for schema changes
Provide Dummy Data via Faker for development

Requirements

PHP 7.1 or higher (works fine with PHP 8)

Install

composer require php-openapi/yii2-openapi:^2.0@beta

Usage

You can use this package in your existing application or start a new project using the yii2-app-api application template. For usage of the template, see instructions in the template repo readme.

In your existing Yii application config (works for console as well as web):

<?php
$config = [
    // ... this is your application config ...
];

if (YII_ENV_DEV) {
    // enable Gii module
    $config['bootstrap'][] = 'gii';
    $config['modules']['gii'] = [
        'class' => \yii\gii\Module::class,
        'generators' => [
            // add ApiGenerator to Gii module
            'api' => \cebe\yii2openapi\generator\ApiGenerator::class,

            // --------- OR ---------
            // to disable generation of migrations files or with default config change
            'api' => [
              'class' => \cebe\yii2openapi\generator\ApiGenerator::class,
              'generateMigrations' => false, # this config can also be applied in CLI command
            ],
        ],
    ];
}

return $config;

To use the web generator, open index.php?r=gii and select the REST API Generator.

On console, you can run the generator with ./yii gii/api --openApiPath=@app/openapi.yaml. Where @app/openapi.yaml should be the absolute path to your OpenAPI spec file. This can be JSON as well as YAML (see also php-openapi/php-openapi for supported formats).

Run ./yii gii/api --help for all options. Example: Disable generation of migrations files ./yii gii/api --generateMigrations=0

See Petstore example for example OpenAPI spec.

OpenAPI extensions

This library understands the following extensions to the OpenAPI spec:

`x-faker`

You may specify custom PHP code for generating fake data for a property:

    Post:
      properties:
        id:
          type: integer
        tags:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          example: ['one', 'two']
          x-faker: "$faker->randomElements(['one', 'two', 'three', 'four'])"

To avoid generating faker code for particular model attribute, use value false:

    Post:
      properties:
        age:
          type: integer
          x-faker: false

Using in reference with allOf:

    Invoice:
      type: object
      required:
        - id
      properties:
        id:
          type: integer

    Order:
      type: object
      required:
        - id
      properties:
        id:
          type: integer
        invoice:
          allOf:
            - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Invoice'
            - x-faker: false

`x-table`

Specify the table name for a Schema that defines a model which is stored in the database. You can generate non-db model based on \yii\base\Model without migrations by setting x-table: false

`x-pk`

Explicitly specify primary key name for table, if it is different from "id"

    Post:
      x-table: posts
      x-pk: uid
      properties:
        uid:
           type: integer
        title:
           type: string

`x-db-type`

Explicitly specify the database type for a column. (MUST contain only real DB type! (json, jsonb, uuid, varchar etc.)). If x-db-type is set to false, property will be processed as virtual; It will be added in model as public property, but skipped for migrations generation.

Example values of x-db-type are:

false (boolean false)
as string and its value can be like:
- text
- text[]
- INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT
- decimal(12,4)
- json
- varchar
- VARCHAR
- SMALLINT UNSIGNED ZEROFILL
- MEDIUMINT(10) UNSIGNED ZEROFILL COMMENT "comment" (note the double quotes here)

Such values are not allowed:

int null default null after low_price (null and default will be handled by nullable and default keys respectively)
MEDIUMINT(10) UNSIGNED ZEROFILL NULL DEFAULT '7' COMMENT 'comment' AFTER seti, ADD INDEX t (w)

If enum and x-db-type both are provided then for database column schema (migrations), only x-db-type will be considered ignoring enum.

`x-indexes`

Specify table indexes

    Post:
      x-table: posts
      x-indexes:
          - 'visible,publish_date'
          - 'unique:title' #for unique attributes also unique validation check will be added
          - 'gist:metadata' #for postgres will generate index using GIST index type
      properties:
        id:
           type: integer
           x-db-type: INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT
        title:
           type: string
        visible:
            type: boolean
        publish_date:
            type: string
            format: date
        metadata:
           type: object
           x-db-type: JSON
           default: '{}'

If raw DB expression is needed in index, then it must be for only one column. Example:

    x-indexes:
       - "gin(to_tsvector('english', search::text)):search" # valid
       - "gin(to_tsvector('english', search::text)):search,column2" # invalid

`x-db-default-expression`

Ability to provide default value by database expression

created_at:
  readOnly: true
  type: string
  format: datetime
  x-db-type: datetime
  nullable: false
  x-db-default-expression: current_timestamp()

Note: If both default and x-db-default-expression are present then default will be considered.

created_at:
  readOnly: true
  type: string
  format: datetime
  x-db-type: datetime
  nullable: false
  x-db-default-expression: current_timestamp() # this will be ignored
  default: "2011-11-11" # this will be considered

Also see: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/data-type-defaults.html

`x-fk-on-delete`

Allow to set foreign key constraint in migrations for ON DELETE event of row in database table. Example:

  components:
    schemas:
      User:
        type: object
        description: x on-x (update|delete) foreign key constraint
        properties:
          id:
            type: integer
          name:
            type: string
      Post:
        type: object
        description: x on-x (update|delete) foreign key constraint
        properties:
          id:
            type: integer
          title:
            type: string
          user:
            allOf:
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/User'
              - x-fk-on-update: CASCADE
          user_2:
            allOf:
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/User'
              - x-fk-on-update: CASCADE
              - x-fk-on-delete: SET NULL
          user_3:
            allOf:
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/User'
              - x-fk-on-delete: SET NULL
          user_4:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/User' # without any constraints

`x-fk-on-update`

Allow to set foreign key constraint in migrations for ON UPDATE event of row in database table. For example, see above section for x-fk-on-delete.

`x-fk-column-name`

Provide custom database table column name in case of relationship column. This will not reflect in models relations, faker etc. Example:

  components:
    schemas:
      Webhook:
        type: object
        description: example for x-fk-column-name
        properties:
          id:
            type: integer
          name:
            type: string
          user:
            $ref: '../openapi.yaml#/components/schemas/User' # this will automatically create `user_id` column
          redelivery_of:
            allOf:
              - $ref: '../openapi.yaml#/components/schemas/Delivery'
              # this will automatically create `redelivery_of_id` column, but to avoid that use below extension
              - x-fk-column-name: redelivery_of # this will create `redelivery_of` column instead of `redelivery_of_id`

`x-deleted-schemas`

This is root level key used to generate "drop table" migration for the deleted component schema. If a component schema (DB model) is removed from OpenAPI spec then its following entities should be also deleted from the code:

DB table (migrations)
model
faker

So to generate appropriate migration for the removed schema, explicitly setting schema name or schema name + custom table name is required in this key. Only then the migrations will be generated. It should be set as:

x-deleted-schemas:
  - Fruit # Example: table name is evaluated to `itt_fruits`, if `itt_` is prefix set in DB config
  - Mango: the_mango_table_name # custom table name; see `x-table` in README.md

`x-no-relation`

To differentiate a component schema property from one-to-many or many-to-many relation in favour of array(json) of related objects, x-no-relation (type: boolean, default: false) is used.

        comments:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: "#/components/schemas/Comment"

This will not generate 'comments' column in database migrations. But it will generate getComments() relation in Yii model file.

In order to make it real database column, extension x-no-relation can be used.

        comments:
          type: array
          x-no-relation: true
          items:
            $ref: "#/components/schemas/Comment"

Database column type can be array, json etc. to store such data.

Now if the Comment schema from the above example is

    Comment:
      properties:
        id:
          type: integer
        content:
          type: string

then the value for comments can be

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "content": "Hi there"
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "content": "Hi there 2"
  }
]

x-no-relation can be only used with OpenAPI schema data type array.

`x-route`

To customize route (controller ID/action ID) for a path, use custom key x-route with value <controller ID>/<action ID>. It can be used for non-crud paths. It must be used under HTTP method key but not directly under the paths key of OpenAPI spec. Example:

paths:
  /payments/invoice/{invoice}:
    parameters:
      - name: invoice
        in: path
        description: lorem ipsum
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
    post:
      x-route: 'payments/invoice'
      summary: Pay Invoice
      description: Pay for Invoice with given invoice number
      requestBody:
        description: Record new payment for an invoice
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/Payments'
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successfully paid the invoice
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Success'

It won't generate actionCreateInvoice in PaymentsController.php file, but will generate actionInvoice instead in same file.

Generated URL rules config for above is (in urls.rest.php or pertinent file):

    'POST payments/invoice/<invoice:\d+>' => 'payments/invoice',
    'payments/invoice/<invoice:\d+>' => 'payments/options',

Also, if same action is needed for HTTP GET and POST then use same value for x-route. Example:

paths:
  /a1/b1:
    get:
      x-route: 'abc/xyz'
      operationId: opnid1
      summary: List
      description: Lists
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The Response
    post:
      x-route: 'abc/xyz'
      operationId: opnid2
      summary: create
      description: create
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The Response

Generated URL rules config for above is (in urls.rest.php or pertinent file):

    'GET a1/b1' => 'abc/xyz',
    'POST a1/b1' => 'abc/xyz',
    'a1/b1' => 'abc/options',

x-route does not support Yii Modules.

Many-to-Many relation definition

There are two ways for define many-to-many relations:

Simple many-to-many without junction model

property name for many-to-many relation should be equal lower-cased, pluralized related schema name
referenced schema should contain mirrored reference to current schema
- migration for junction table can be generated automatically - table name should be [pluralized, lower-cased schema_name1]2[pluralized, lower-cased schema name2], in alphabetical order; For example, for schemas Post and Tag - table should be posts2tags, for schemas Post and Attachement - table should be attachments2posts

Post:
  properties:
  ...
    tags:
      type: array
      items:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/Tag'

Tag:
  properties:
  ...
    posts:
      type: array
      items:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/Post'

Many-to-many with junction model

This way allowed creating multiple many-to-many relations between to models

define junction schema with all necessary attributes. There are only one important requirement - the junction schema name must be started with prefix 'junction_' (This prefix will be used internally only and will be trimmed before table and model generation)

# Model TeamMembers with table team_members will be generated with columns team_id, user_id and role
junction_TeamMembers:
   team:
      $ref: '#/components/schemas/Team'
   user:
      $ref: '#/components/schemas/User'
   role:
     type: string

Both many-to-many related schemas must have properties with reference to "junction_*" schema. These properties will be used as relation names

Team:
  properties:
  ...
     team_members:
       type: array
       items:
         $ref: '#/components/schemas/junction_TeamMembers'

User:
  properties:
  ...
    memberships: #You absolutely free with naming for relationship attributes
      type: array
      items:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/junction_TeamMembers'

see both examples here tests/specs/many2many.yaml

Handling of `NOT NULL` constraints

NOT NULL in DB migrations is determined by nullable and required properties of the OpenAPI schema. e.g. attribute = 'my_property'.

If you define attribute neither "required" nor via "nullable", then it is by default NULL (opposite of OpenAPI spec):

  ExampleSchema:
    properties:
      my_property:
        type: string

If you define attribute in "required", then it is NOT NULL

  ExampleSchema:
    required:
     - my_property
    properties:
      my_property:
        type: string

If you define attribute via "nullable", then it overrides "required", e.g. allow NULL in this case:

  ExampleSchema:
    required:
      - my_property
    properties:
      my_property:
        type: string
        nullable: true

If you define attribute via "nullable", then it overrides "required", e.g. NOT NULL in this case:

  test_table:
    required:
    properties:
      my_property:
        type: string
        nullable: false

Handling of `enum` (#enum)

It works on all 3 DB: MySQL, MariaDb and PgSQL.

 test_table:
   properties:
     my_property:
       enum:
         - one
         - two
         - three

Note: Changes in enum values are not very simple. For Mysql and Mariadb, migrations will be generated but in many cases custom modification in it are required. For Pgsql migrations for change in enum values will not be generated. It should be handled manually.

It will be ignored for database column schema (migrations) if x-db-type is provided.

Handling of `numeric` (#numeric, #MariaDb)

precision-default = 10 scale-default = 2

You can define attribute like "numeric(precision,scale)":

 test_table:
   properties:
     my_property:
       x-db-type: decimal(12,4)

DB-Result = decimal(12,4)

You can define attribute like "numeric(precision)" with default scale-default = 2:

 test_table:
   properties:
     my_property:
       x-db-type: decimal(12)

DB-Result = decimal(12,2)

You can define attribute like "numeric" with precision-default = 10 and scale-default = 2:

 test_table:
   properties:
     my_property:
       x-db-type: decimal

DB-Result = decimal(10,2)

Handling of `timestamp` database column data type

If field is defined as

created_at:
    type: string
    format: date-time # or datetime
    example: '2020-03-14T21:42:17Z'
    readOnly: true

then database type selected will be timestamp. This is by design. If datetime data type is needed, use x-db-type as

created_at:
    type: string
    format: date-time # or datetime
    example: '2020-03-14T21:42:17Z'
    x-db-type: datetime
    readOnly: true

Assumptions

When generating code from an OpenAPI description there are many possible ways to achive a fitting result. Thus, there are some assumptions and limitations that are currently applied to make this work. Here is a (possibly incomplete) list:

The current implementation works best with OpenAPI description that follows the JSON:API guidelines.
- The request and response format/schema is currently not extracted from OpenAPI schema and may need to be adjusted manually if it does not follow JSON:API
column/field/property with name id is considered as Primary Key by this library, and it is automatically handled by DB/Yii; so remove it from validation rules()
- other fields can currently be used as primary keys using the x-pk OpenAPI extension (see below) but it may not be work correctly in all cases, please report bugs if you find them.

Other things to keep in mind:

Adding columns to existing tables

When adding new fields in the API models, new migrations will be generated to add these fields to the table. For a project that is already in production, it should be considered to adjust the generated migration to add default values for existing data records.

One case where this is important is the addition of a new column with NOT NULL contraint, which does not provide a default value. Such a migration will fail when the table is not empty:

$this->addColumn('{{%company}}', 'name', $this->string(128)->notNull());

Fails on a PostgreSQL database with

add column name string(128) NOT NULL to table {{%company}} ...Exception: SQLSTATE[23502]: Not null violation: 7 ERROR: column "name" contains null values

The solution would be to create the column, allowing NULL, set the value to a default and add the null constraint later.

$this->addColumn('{{%company}}', 'name', $this->string(128)->null());
$this->update('{{%company}}', ['name' => 'No name']);
$this->alterColumn('{{%company}}', 'name', $this->string(128)->notNull());

Screenshots

Gii Generator Form:

Generated files:

Development

To contribute or play around, steps to set up this project up locally are in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Support

Need help with your API project?

Professional support, consulting as well as software development services are available:

https://www.cebe.cc/en/contact

Development of this library is sponsored by cebe.:cloud: "Your Professional Deployment Platform".

php-openapi / yii2-openapi

Maintainers

Details

README

TLDR; what is this?

Features

Requirements

Install

Usage

OpenAPI extensions

`x-faker`

`x-table`

`x-pk`

`x-db-type`

`x-indexes`

`x-db-default-expression`

`x-fk-on-delete`

`x-fk-on-update`

`x-fk-column-name`

`x-deleted-schemas`

`x-no-relation`

`x-route`

Many-to-Many relation definition

Simple many-to-many without junction model

Many-to-many with junction model

Handling of `NOT NULL` constraints

Handling of `enum` (#enum)

Handling of `numeric` (#numeric, #MariaDb)

Handling of `timestamp` database column data type

Assumptions

Adding columns to existing tables

Screenshots

Development

Support

php-openapi / yii2-openapi

Maintainers

Details

README

TLDR; what is this?

Features

Requirements

Install

Usage

OpenAPI extensions

x-faker

x-table

x-pk

x-db-type

x-indexes

x-db-default-expression

x-fk-on-delete

x-fk-on-update

x-fk-column-name

x-deleted-schemas

x-no-relation

x-route

Many-to-Many relation definition

Simple many-to-many without junction model

Many-to-many with junction model

Handling of NOT NULL constraints

Handling of enum (#enum)

Handling of numeric (#numeric, #MariaDb)

Handling of timestamp database column data type

Assumptions

Adding columns to existing tables

Screenshots

Development

Support

`x-faker`

`x-table`

`x-pk`

`x-db-type`

`x-indexes`

`x-db-default-expression`

`x-fk-on-delete`

`x-fk-on-update`

`x-fk-column-name`

`x-deleted-schemas`

`x-no-relation`

`x-route`

Handling of `NOT NULL` constraints

Handling of `enum` (#enum)

Handling of `numeric` (#numeric, #MariaDb)

Handling of `timestamp` database column data type