npm i -D @alma-cdk/openapix

Generate AWS Api Gateway REST APIs via OpenAPI (formely known as “Swagger”) Schema Definitions by consuming "clean" OpenAPI schemas and inject x-amazon-apigateway- extensions with type-safety.

🚧   Project Stability

This construct is still versioned with v0 major version and breaking changes might be introduced if necessary (without a major version bump), though we aim to keep the API as stable as possible (even within v0 development). We aim to publish v1.0.0 soon and after that breaking changes will be introduced via major version bumps.

There are also some incomplete or buggy features, such as CORS and CognitoUserPoolsAuthorizer.

Getting Started

1. Install npm i -D @alma-cdk/openapix

2. Define your API OpenApi Schema Definition in a .yaml file
   without any x-amazon-apigateway- extensions

3. Use openapix constructs in CDK to consume the .yaml file and then assign API Gateway integrations using CDK

HTTP Integration

Given the following http-proxy.yaml OpenApi schema definition, without any AWS API Gateway OpenApi extensions:

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: HTTP Proxy
  description: Proxies requests to example.com
  version: "0.0.1"
paths:
  "/":
    get:
      summary: proxy
      description: Proxies example.com

You may then define API Gateway HTTP integration (within your stack):

new openapix.Api(this, 'HttpProxy', {
  source: path.join(__dirname, '../schema/http-proxy.yaml'),

  paths: {
    '/': {
      get: new openapix.HttpIntegration(this, 'http://example.com', {
          httpMethod: 'get',
      }),
    },
  },
});

See /examples/http-proxy for full OpenApi definition (with response models) and an example within a CDK application.

Lambda Integration

Given the following hello-api.yaml OpenApi schema definition, without any AWS API Gateway OpenApi extensions:

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Hello API
  description: Defines an example “Hello World” API
  version: "0.0.1"
paths:
  "/":
    get:
      operationId: sayHello
      summary: Say Hello
      description: Prints out a greeting
      parameters:
      - name: name
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          default: "World"
      responses:
        "200":
          description: Successful response
          content:
            "application/json":
              schema:
                $ref: "#/components/schemas/HelloResponse"

components:
  schemas:
    HelloResponse:
      description: Response body
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
          description: Greeting
          example: Hello World!

You may then define API Gateway AWS Lambda integration (within your stack):

const greetFn = new NodejsFunction(this, 'greet');

new openapix.Api(this, 'HelloApi', {
  source: path.join(__dirname, '../schema/hello-api.yaml'),
  paths: {
    '/': {
      get: new openapix.LambdaIntegration(this, greetFn),
    },
  },
})

See /examples/hello-api for full OpenApi definition (with response models) and an example within a CDK application.

AWS Service Integration

Given books-api.yaml OpenApi schema definition, without any AWS API Gateway OpenApi extensions, You may then define API Gateway AWS service integration such as DynamoDB (within your stack):

new openapix.Api(this, 'BooksApi', {
  source: path.join(__dirname, '../schema/books-api.yaml'),
  paths: {
    '/': {
      get: new openapix.AwsIntegration(this, {
        service: 'dynamodb',
        action: 'Scan',
        options: {
          credentialsRole: role, // role must have access to DynamoDB table
          requestTemplates: {
            'application/json': JSON.stringify({
              TableName: table.tableName,
            }),
          },
          integrationResponses: [
            {
              statusCode: '200',
              responseTemplates: {
                // See /examples/http-proxy/lib/list-books.vtl
                'application/json': readFileSync(__dirname+'/list-books.vtl', 'utf-8'),
              },
            }
          ],
        },
      }),
    },
    '/{isbn}': {
      get: new openapix.AwsIntegration(this, {
        service: 'dynamodb',
        action: 'GetItem',
        options: {
          credentialsRole: role, // role must have access to DynamoDB table
          requestTemplates: {
            'application/json': JSON.stringify({
              TableName: table.tableName,
              Key: {
                item: {
                  "S": "$input.params('isbn')"
                }
              }
            }),
          },
          integrationResponses: [
            {
              statusCode: '200',
              responseTemplates: {
                // See /examples/http-proxy/lib/get-book.vtl
                'application/json': readFileSync(__dirname+'/get-book.vtl', 'utf-8'),
              },
            }
          ],
        },
      }),
    },
  },
});

See /examples/books-api for full OpenApi definition (with response models) and an example within a CDK application.

Mock Integration

Given the following mock-api.yaml OpenApi schema definition, without any AWS API Gateway OpenApi extensions:

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Hello API
  description: Defines an example “Hello World” API
  version: "0.0.1"
paths:
  "/":
    get:
      operationId: sayHello
      summary: Say Hello
      description: Prints out a greeting
      parameters:
      - name: name
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          default: "World"
      responses:
        "200":
          description: Successful response
          content:
            "application/json":
              schema:
                $ref: "#/components/schemas/HelloResponse"

components:
  schemas:
    HelloResponse:
      description: Response body
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
          description: Greeting
          example: Hello World!

You may then define API Gateway Mock integration (within your stack):

new openapix.Api(this, 'MockApi', {
  source: path.join(__dirname, '../schema/mock-api.yaml'),
  paths: {
    '/': {
      get: new openapix.MockIntegration(this, {
        requestTemplates: {
          "application/json": JSON.stringify({ statusCode: 200 }),
        },
        passthroughBehavior: apigateway.PassthroughBehavior.NEVER,
        requestParameters: {
          'integration.request.querystring.name': 'method.request.querystring.name',
        },
        integrationResponses: [
          {
            statusCode: '200',
            responseTemplates: {
              // see /examples/mock-api/lib/greet.vtl
              'application/json': readFileSync(__dirname+'/greet.vtl', 'utf-8'),
            },
            responseParameters: {},
          },
        ],
      }),
    },
  },
});

See /examples/mock-api for full OpenApi definition (with response models) and an example within a CDK application.

Validators

API Gateway REST APIs can perform request parameter and request body validation. You can provide both default validator and integration specific validator (which will override the default for given integration).

See /examples/todo-api for complete example within a CDK application.

Given todo-api.yaml OpenApi schema definition you may define the API Gateway validators for your integration in CDK:

new openapix.Api(this, 'MyApi', {
  source: path.join(__dirname, '../schema/todo-api.yaml'),

  validators: {
    'all': {
      validateRequestBody: true,
      validateRequestParameters: true,
      default: true, // set this as the "API level" default validator (there can be only one)
    },
    'params-only' : {
      validateRequestBody: false,
      validateRequestParameters: true,
    },
  },

  paths: {
    '/todos': {
      // this one uses the default 'all' validator
      post:  new openapix.HttpIntegration(this, baseUrl, { httpMethod: 'post' }),
    },
    '/todos/{todoId}': {
      // this one has validator override and uses 'params-only' validator
      get: new openapix.HttpIntegration(this, `${baseUrl}/{todoId}`, {
        validator: 'params-only',
        options: {
          requestParameters: {
            'integration.request.path.todoId': 'method.request.path.todoId',
          },
        },
      }),
    },
  },
})

Authorizers

🚧 Work-in-Progress

There are multiple ways to control & manages access to API Gateway REST APIs such as resource policies, IAM permissions and usage plans with API keys but this section focuses on Cognito User Pools and Lambda authorizers.

Cognito Authorizers

In this example we're defining a Congito User Pool based authorizer.

Given the following schema.yaml OpenApi definition:

openapi: 3.0.3
paths:
  /:
    get:
      security:
        - MyAuthorizer: ["test/read"] # add scope
components:
  securitySchemes:
    MyCognitoAuthorizer:
      type: apiKey
      name: Authorization
      in: header

You can define the Cognito Authorizer in CDK with:

const userPool: cognito.IUserPool;

new openapix.Api(this, 'MyApi', {
  source: './schema.yaml',

  authorizers: [
    new openapix.CognitoUserPoolsAuthorizer(this, 'MyCognitoAuthorizer', {
      cognitoUserPools: [userPool],
      resultsCacheTtl: Duration.minutes(5),
    })
  ],
})

Lambda Authorizers

In this example we're defining a custom Lambda authorizer. The authorizer function code is not relevant for the example but the idea in the example is that an API caller sends some "secret code" in query parameters (?code=example123456) which then the authorizer function somehow evaluates.

Given the following schema.yaml OpenApi definition:

openapi: 3.0.3
paths:
  /:
    get:
      security:
        - MyAuthorizer: [] # note the empty array
components:
  securitySchemes:
    MyCustomAuthorizer:
      type: apiKey
      name: code
      in: query

You can define the custom Lambda Authorizer in CDK with:

const authFn: lambda.IFunction;

new openapix.Api(this, 'MyApi', {
  source: './schema.yaml',

  authorizers: [

    new openapix.LambdaAuthorizer(this, 'MyCustomAuthorizer', {
      fn: authFn,
      identitySource: apigateway.IdentitySource.queryString('code'),
      type: 'request',
      authType: 'custom',
      resultsCacheTtl: Duration.minutes(5),
    }),
  ],


})

Inject/Reject

You may modify the generated OpenAPI definition (which is used to define API Gateway REST API) by injecting or rejecting values from the source OpenAPI schema definition:

new openapix.Api(this, 'MyApi', {
  source: './schema.yaml',

  // Add any OpenAPI v3 data.
  // Can be useful for passing values from CDK code.
  // See https://swagger.io/specification/
  injections: {
    "info.title": "FancyPantsAPI"
  },

  // Reject fields by absolute object path from generated definition
  rejections: ['info.description'],

  // Reject all matching fields from generated definition
  rejectionsDeep: ['example', 'examples'],
});

CORS

🚧 Work-in-Progress

Using openapix.CorsIntegration creates a Mock integration which responds with correct response headers:

new openapix.Api(this, 'MyApi', {
  source: './schema.yaml',

  paths: {
    '/foo': {
      options: new openapix.CorsIntegration(this, {
        // using helper method to define explicit values:
        headers: CorsHeaders.from(this, 'Content-Type', 'X-Amz-Date', 'Authorization'),
        origins: CorsOrigins.from(this, 'https://www.example.com'),
        methods: CorsMethods.from(this, 'options','post','get'),
      }),
    },
    '/bar': {
      options: new openapix.CorsIntegration(this, {
        // using regular string values:
        headers: 'Content-Type,X-Amz-Date,Authorization',
        origins: '*',
        methods: 'options,get',
      }),
    },
    '/baz': {
      options: new openapix.CorsIntegration(this, {
        // using helper constant for wildcard values:
        headers: CorsHeaders.ANY,
        origins: CorsOrigins.ANY,
        methods: CorsMethods.ANY,
      }),
    },
  },
});

When specifying multiple origins the mock integration uses VTL magic to respond with the correct Access-Control-Allow-Origin header.

Default CORS

If you wish to define same CORS options to every path, you may do so by providing a default cors value:

new openapix.Api(this, 'MyApi', {
  source: './schema.yaml',

  defaultCors: new openapix.CorsIntegration(this, {
    headers: CorsHeaders.ANY,
    origins: CorsOrigins.ANY,
    methods: CorsMethods.ANY,
  }),

  paths: {/*...*/},
});

This will apply the given cors configuration to every path as options method. You may still do path specific overrides by adding an options method to specific paths.

API Gateway EndpointType

AWS CDK API Gateway constructs default to Edge-optimized API endpoints by using EndpointType.EDGE as the default.

This construct @alma-cdk/openapix instead defaults to using Regional API endpoints by setting EndpointType.REGIONAL as the default value. This is because we believe that in most cases you're better of by configuring your own CloudFront distribution in front the API. If you do that, you might also be interested in @alma-cdk/origin-verify construct.

You MAY override this default in @alma-cdk/openapix by providing your preferred endpoint types via restApiProps:

new openapix.Api(this, 'MyApi', {
  source: './schema.yaml',

  paths: {/*...*/},

  restApiProps: {
    endpointConfiguration: {
      types: [ apigateway.EndpointType.EDGE ],
    },
  },
});