How to open local files in Swagger-UI

Question

I\'m trying to open my self generated swagger specification file my.json with swagger-ui on my local computer.

So I downloaded the latest tag v2.1.8-M1

Answer 1

LINUX

I always had issues while trying paths and the spec parameter.

Therefore I went for the online solution that will update automatically the JSON on Swagger without having to reimport.

If you use npm to start your swagger editor you should add a symbolic link of your json file.

cd /path/to/your/swaggerui where index.html is.

ln -s /path/to/your/generated/swagger.json

You may encounter cache problems. The quick way to solve this was to add a token at the end of my url...

window.onload = function() {

var noCache = Math.floor((Math.random() * 1000000) + 1);

// Build a system
const editor = SwaggerEditorBundle({
url: "http://localhost:3001/swagger.json?"+noCache,
  dom_id: '#swagger-editor',
  layout: 'StandaloneLayout',
  presets: [
    SwaggerEditorStandalonePreset
  ]
})

window.editor = editor
}