REST API application generator for Yii2, openapi 3.0 YAML -> Yii2.
Base on Gii, the Yii Framework Code Generator.
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
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
- PHP 7.1 or higher (works fine with PHP 8)
composer require php-openapi/yii2-openapi:^2.0@beta
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 $config;To use the web generator, open index.php?r=gii and select the REST API Generator.
On console, you can run the generator with ./yii gii/api --openApiPath=@app/openapi.yaml. Where @app/openapi.yaml
should be the absolute path to your OpenAPI spec file. This can be JSON as well as YAML (see
also php-openapi/php-openapi for supported formats).
Run ./yii gii/api --help for all options. Example: Disable generation of migrations files ./yii gii/api --generateMigrations=0
See Petstore example for example OpenAPI spec.
This library understands the following extensions to the OpenAPI spec:
You may specify custom PHP code for generating fake data for a property:
Post:
properties:
id:
type: integer
tags:
type: array
items:
type: string
example: ['one', 'two']
x-faker: "$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: falseUsing 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: falseSpecify 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
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: stringExplicitly 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 bynullableanddefaultkeys respectively)- MEDIUMINT(10) UNSIGNED ZEROFILL NULL DEFAULT '7' COMMENT 'comment' AFTER
seti, ADD INDEXt(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.
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" # invalidAbility 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 consideredAlso see: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/data-type-defaults.html
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 constraintsAllow 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.
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`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.mdTo 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: stringthen 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.
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 ResponseGenerated 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.
There are two ways for define many-to-many relations:
-
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'
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
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
NULLin 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 NULLin this case:
test_table:
required:
properties:
my_property:
type: string
nullable: falseIt works on all 3 DB: MySQL, MariaDb and PgSQL.
test_table:
properties:
my_property:
enum:
- one
- two
- threeNote: 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.
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: decimalDB-Result = decimal(10,2)
If field is defined as
created_at:
type: string
format: date-time # or datetime
example: '2020-03-14T21:42:17Z'
readOnly: truethen 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: trueWhen 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
idis considered as Primary Key by this library, and it is automatically handled by DB/Yii; so remove it from validationrules()- other fields can currently be used as primary keys using the
x-pkOpenAPI extension (see below) but it may not be work correctly in all cases, please report bugs if you find them.
- other fields can currently be used as primary keys using the
Other things to keep in mind:
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());Gii Generator Form:
Generated files:
To contribute or play around, steps to set up this project up locally are in CONTRIBUTING.md.
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