After adding dry-types, Ruby 2.4 or newer is required.
Virtus has been replaced by dry-types for parameter coercion. If your project depends on Virtus, explicitly add it to your Gemfile
. Also, if Virtus is used for defining custom types
class User
include Virtus.model
attribute :id, Integer
attribute :name, String
end
# somewhere in your API
params do
requires :user, type: User
end
Add a class-level parse
method to the model:
class User
include Virtus.model
attribute :id, Integer
attribute :name, String
def self.parse(attrs)
new(attrs)
end
end
Custom types which don't depend on Virtus don't require any changes.
For more information see #1920.
Headers in error!
will be merged with headers
hash. If any header need to be cleared on error!
call, make sure to move it to the after
block.
class SampleApi < Grape::API
before do
header 'X-Before-Header', 'before_call'
end
get 'ping' do
header 'X-App-Header', 'on_call'
error! :pong, 400, 'X-Error-Details' => 'Invalid token'
end
end
Former behaviour
response.headers['X-Before-Header'] # => nil
response.headers['X-App-Header'] # => nil
response.headers['X-Error-Details'] # => Invalid token
Current behaviour
response.headers['X-Before-Header'] # => 'before_call'
response.headers['X-App-Header'] # => 'on_call'
response.headers['X-Error-Details'] # => Invalid token
In order to make obtaining the name of a mounted class simpler, we've delegated .to_s
to base.name
Deprecated in 1.2.0
payload[:endpoint].options[:for].name
New
payload[:endpoint].options[:for].to_s
In an effort to make APIs re-mountable, The class Grape::API
no longer refers to an API instance,
rather, what used to be Grape::API
is now Grape::API::Instance
and Grape::API
was replaced
with a class that can contain several instances of Grape::API
.
This changes were done in such a way that no code-changes should be required.
However, if experiencing problems, or relying on private methods and internal behaviour too deeply, it is possible to restore the prior behaviour by replacing the references from Grape::API
to Grape::API::Instance
.
Note, this is particularly relevant if you are opening the class Grape::API
for modification.
Deprecated
class Grape::API
# your patched logic
...
end
New
class Grape::API::Instance
# your patched logic
...
end
After the patch, the mounted API is no longer a Named class inheriting from Grape::API
, it is an anonymous class
which inherit from Grape::API::Instance
.
What this means in practice, is:
- Generally: you can access the named class from the instance calling the getter
base
. - In particular: If you need the
name
, you can usebase
.name
Deprecated
payload[:endpoint].options[:for].name
New
payload[:endpoint].options[:for].base.name
Grape will now check the object returned from rescue_from
and ensure that it is a Rack::Response
. That makes sure response is valid and avoids exposing service information. Change any code that invoked Rack::Response.new(...).finish
in a custom rescue_from
block to Rack::Response.new(...)
to comply with the validation.
class Twitter::API < Grape::API
rescue_from :all do |e|
# version prior to 1.2.0
Rack::Response.new([ e.message ], 500, { 'Content-type' => 'text/error' }).finish
# 1.2.0 version
Rack::Response.new([ e.message ], 500, { 'Content-type' => 'text/error' })
end
end
See #1757 and #1776 for more information.
For PUT, POST, PATCH, and DELETE requests where a non-empty body and a "Content-Type" header is supplied that is not supported by the Grape API, Grape will no longer return a 406 "Not Acceptable" HTTP status code and will instead return a 415 "Unsupported Media Type" so that the usage of HTTP status code falls more in line with the specification of RFC 2616.
Grape no longer uses multi_json
or multi_xml
by default and uses JSON
and ActiveSupport::XmlMini
instead. This has no visible impact on JSON processing, but the default behavior of the XML parser has changed. For example, an XML POST containing <user>Bobby T.</user>
was parsed as Bobby T.
with multi_xml
, and as now parsed as {"__content__"=>"Bobby T."}
with XmlMini
.
If you were using MultiJson.load
, MultiJson.dump
or MultiXml.parse
, you can substitute those with Grape::Json.load
, Grape::Json.dump
, ::Grape::Xml.parse
, or directly with JSON.load
, JSON.dump
, XmlMini.parse
, etc.
To restore previous behavior, add multi_json
or multi_xml
to your Gemfile
and require
it.
See #1623 for more information.
The default class for params
has changed from Hashie::Mash
to ActiveSupport::HashWithIndifferentAccess
and the hashie
dependency has been removed. This means that by default you can no longer access parameters by method name.
class API < Grape::API
params do
optional :color, type: String
end
get do
params[:color] # use params[:color] instead of params.color
end
end
To restore the behavior of prior versions, add hashie
to your Gemfile
and include Grape::Extensions::Hashie::Mash::ParamBuilder
in your API.
class API < Grape::API
include Grape::Extensions::Hashie::Mash::ParamBuilder
params do
optional :color, type: String
end
get do
# params.color works
end
end
This behavior can also be overridden on individual parameter blocks using build_with
.
params do
build_with Grape::Extensions::Hash::ParamBuilder
optional :color, type: String
end
If you're constructing your own Grape::Request
in a middleware, you can pass different parameter handlers to create the desired params
class with build_params_with
.
def request
Grape::Request.new(env, build_params_with: Grape::Extensions::Hashie::Mash::ParamBuilder)
end
See #1610 for more information.
The new except_values
validator should be used in place of the except
and except_message
options of
the values
validator.
Arity one Procs may now be used directly as the values
option to explicitly test param values.
Deprecated
params do
requires :a, values: { value: 0..99, except: [3] }
requires :b, values: { value: 0..99, except: [3], except_message: 'not allowed' }
requires :c, values: { except: ['admin'] }
requires :d, values: { proc: -> (v) { v.even? } }
end
New
params do
requires :a, values: 0..99, except_values: [3]
requires :b, values: 0..99, except_values: { value: [3], message: 'not allowed' }
requires :c, except_values: ['admin']
requires :d, values: -> (v) { v.even? }
end
See #1616 for more information.
Prior to this version, DELETE requests defaulted to a status code of 204 No Content, even when the response included content. This behavior confused some clients and prevented the formatter middleware from running properly. As of this version, DELETE requests will only default to a 204 No Content status code if no response body is provided, and will default to 200 OK otherwise.
Specifically, DELETE behaviour has changed as follows:
- In versions < 0.19.0, all DELETE requests defaulted to a 200 OK status code.
- In version 0.19.0, all DELETE requests defaulted to a 204 No Content status code, even when content was included in the response.
- As of version 0.19.1, DELETE requests default to a 204 No Content status code, unless content is supplied, in which case they default to a 200 OK status code.
To achieve the old behavior, one can specify the status code explicitly:
delete :id do
status 204 # or 200, for < 0.19.0 behavior
'foo successfully deleted'
end
One can also use the new return_no_content
helper to explicitly return a 204 status code and an empty body for any request type:
delete :id do
return_no_content
'this will not be returned'
end
See #1550 for more information.
Prior to this version, :any
routes were searched after matching first route and 405 routes. This behavior has changed and :any
routes are now searched before 405 processing. In the following example the :any
route will match first when making a request with an unsupported verb.
post :example do
'example'
end
route :any, '*path' do
error! :not_found, 404
end
get '/example' #=> before: 405, after: 404
When a request is made to the built-in OPTIONS
handler, only the before
and after
callbacks associated with the resource will be run. The before_validation
and
after_validation
callbacks and parameter validations will be skipped.
See #1505 for more information.
Grape now correctly returns validation errors for all params when multiple params are passed to a requires.
The following code will return one is missing, two is missing
when calling the endpoint without parameters.
params do
requires :one, :two
end
Prior to this version the response would be one is missing
.
See #1510 for more information.
Breaking change: Sets the default response status code for a delete request to 204. A status of 204 makes the response more distinguishable and therefore easier to handle on the client side, particularly because a DELETE request typically returns an empty body as the resource was deleted or voided.
To achieve the old behavior, one has to set it explicitly:
delete :id do
status 200
'foo successfully deleted'
end
For more information see: #1532.
Grape is no longer automatically tested against versions of Ruby prior to 2.2.2. This is because of its dependency on activesupport which, with version 5.0.0, now requires at least Ruby 2.2.2.
See #1441 for nmore information.
The rescue_from
clauses declared inside a namespace would take a priority over ones declared in the root scope.
This could possibly affect those users who use different rescue_from
clauses in root scope and in namespaces.
See #1405 for more information.
Helper methods are injected inside rescue_from
may cause undesirable effects. For example, definining a helper method called error!
will take precendence over the built-in error!
method and should be renamed.
See #1451 for an example.
The Route#route_xyz
methods have been deprecated since 0.15.1.
Please use Route#xyz
instead.
Note that the Route#route_method
was replaced by Route#request_method
.
The following code would work correctly.
TwitterAPI::versions # yields [ 'v1', 'v2' ]
TwitterAPI::routes # yields an array of Grape::Route objects
TwitterAPI::routes[0].version # => 'v1'
TwitterAPI::routes[0].description # => 'Includes custom settings.'
TwitterAPI::routes[0].settings[:custom] # => { key: 'value' }
TwitterAPI::routes[0].request_method # => 'GET'
Now to serve files via Grape just pass the path to the file. Functionality with FileStreamer-like objects is deprecated.
Please, replace your FileStreamer-like objects with paths of served files.
Old style:
class FileStreamer
def initialize(file_path)
@file_path = file_path
end
def each(&blk)
File.open(@file_path, 'rb') do |file|
file.each(10, &blk)
end
end
end
# ...
class API < Grape::API
get '/' do
file FileStreamer.new('/path/to/file')
end
end
New style:
class API < Grape::API
get '/' do
file '/path/to/file'
end
end
The :with
option of rescue_from
does not accept value except Proc, String or Symbol now.
If you have been depending the old behavior, you should use lambda block instead.
class API < Grape::API
rescue_from :all, with: -> { Rack::Response.new('rescued with a method', 400) }
end
The after
method of the middleware is now also called on error. The following code would work correctly.
class ErrorMiddleware < Grape::Middleware::Base
def after
return unless @app_response && @app_response[0] == 500
env['rack.logger'].debug("Raised error on #{env['PATH_INFO']}")
end
end
See #1147 and #1240 for discussion of the issues.
A warning will be logged if an exception is raised in an after
callback, which points you to middleware that was not called in the previous version and is called now.
caught error of type NoMethodError in after callback inside Api::Middleware::SomeMiddleware : undefined method `headers' for nil:NilClass
See #1285 for more information.
A 405 Method Not Allowed
error now causes Grape::Exceptions::MethodNotAllowed
to be raised, which will be rescued via rescue_from :all
. Restore old behavior with the following error handler.
rescue_from Grape::Exceptions::MethodNotAllowed do |e|
error! e.message, e.status, e.headers
end
See #1283 for more information.
When raising Grape::Exceptions::Validation
explicitly, replace message_key
with message
.
For example,
fail Grape::Exceptions::Validation, params: [:oauth_token_secret], message_key: :presence
becomes
fail Grape::Exceptions::Validation, params: [:oauth_token_secret], message: :presence
See #1295 for more information.
The #declared
method of the route DSL is no longer available in the before
filter. Using declared
in a before
filter will now raise Grape::DSL::InsideRoute::MethodNotYetAvailable
.
See #1074 for discussion of the issue.
Identical endpoints with different versions now work correctly. A regression introduced in Grape 0.11.0 caused all but the first-mounted version for such an endpoint to wrongly throw an InvalidAcceptHeader
. As a side effect, requests with a correct vendor but invalid version can no longer be rescued from a rescue_from
block.
See #1114 for more information.
To be consistent with rack and it's handling of standard responses associated with no content, both default and custom formatters will now be bypassed when processing responses for status codes defined by rack
See #1190 for more information.
#redirect
now uses text/plain
regardless of whether that format has
been enabled. This prevents formatters from attempting to serialize the
message body and allows for a descriptive message body to be provided - and
optionally overridden - that better fulfills the theme of the HTTP spec.
See #1194 for more information.
The Rack response object is no longer converted to an array by the formatter, enabling streaming. If your custom middleware is accessing @app_response
, update it to expect a Rack::Response
instance instead of an array.
For example,
class CacheBusterMiddleware < Grape::Middleware::Base
def after
@app_response[1]['Expires'] = Time.at(0).utc.to_s
@app_response
end
end
becomes
class CacheBusterMiddleware < Grape::Middleware::Base
def after
@app_response.headers['Expires'] = Time.at(0).utc.to_s
@app_response
end
end
See #1029 for more information.
There is a known issue because of this change. When Grape is used with an older than 1.2.4 version of warden there may be raised the following exception having the rack-mount gem's lines as last ones in the backtrace:
NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
The issue can be solved by upgrading warden to 1.2.4 version.
See #1151 for more information.
Using present
with objects that responded to merge
would cause early evaluation of the represented object, with unexpected side-effects, such as missing parameters or environment within rendering code. Grape now only merges represented objects with a previously rendered body, usually when multiple present
calls are made in the same route.
See grape-with-roar#5 and #1023.
Parameters with nil
value will now pass regexp
validation. To disallow nil
value for an endpoint, add allow_blank: false
.
params do
requires :email, allow_blank: false, regexp: /.+@.+/
end
See #957 for more information.
Note: error_response
is being deprecated, not removed.
def error!(message, status = options[:default_status], headers = {}, backtrace = [])
headers = { 'Content-Type' => content_type }.merge(headers)
rack_response(format_message(message, backtrace), status, headers)
end
For example,
error_response({ message: { message: 'No such page.', id: 'missing_page' }, status: 404, headers: { 'Content-Type' => 'api/error' })
becomes
error!({ message: 'No such page.', id: 'missing_page' }, 404, { 'Content-Type' => 'api/error' })
error!
also supports just passing a message. error!('Server error.')
and format: :json
returns the following JSON response
{ 'error': 'Server error.' }
with a status code of 500 and a Content Type of text/error.
Optionally, also replace Rack::Response.new
with error!.
The following are equivalent:
Rack::Response.new([ e.message ], 500, { "Content-type" => "text/error" }).finish
error!(e)
See #889 for more information.
Version 0.10.0 has introduced a change via #809 whereas routes no longer got file-type suffixes added if you declared a single API format
. This has been reverted, it's now again possible to call API with proper suffix when single format
is defined:
class API < Grape::API
format :json
get :hello do
{ hello: 'world' }
end
end
Will respond with JSON to /hello
and /hello.json
.
Will respond with 404 to /hello.xml
, /hello.txt
etc.
See the #1001 and #914 for more info.
Grape now supports, but doesn't require Rack 1.6.0. If you encounter an issue with parsing requests larger than 128KB, explictly require Rack 1.6.0 in your Gemfile.
gem 'rack', '~> 1.6.0'
See #559 for more information.
Key route_info is excluded from params.
See #879 for more information.
Callbacks defined in a version block are only called for the routes defined in that block. This was a regression introduced in Grape 0.10.0, and is fixed in this version.
See #901 for more information.
Groups of parameters now require their type to be set explicitly as Array or Hash. Not setting the type now results in MissingGroupTypeError, unsupported type will raise UnsupportedTypeError.
See #886 for more information.
Attributes with nil
values or with values that evaluate to false
are no longer considered missing and will be returned when include_missing
is set to false
.
See #864 for more information.
The following content-types have been removed:
- atom (application/atom+xml)
- rss (application/rss+xml)
- jsonapi (application/jsonapi)
This is because they have never been properly supported.
New block syntax:
Former:
desc "some descs",
detail: 'more details',
entity: API::Entities::Entity,
params: API::Entities::Status.documentation,
named: 'a name',
headers: [XAuthToken: {
description: 'Valdates your identity',
required: true
}
get nil, http_codes: [
[401, 'Unauthorized', API::Entities::BaseError],
[404, 'not found', API::Entities::Error]
] do
Now:
desc "some descs" do
detail 'more details'
params API::Entities::Status.documentation
success API::Entities::Entity
failure [
[401, 'Unauthorized', API::Entities::BaseError],
[404, 'not found', API::Entities::Error]
]
named 'a name'
headers [
XAuthToken: {
description: 'Valdates your identity',
required: true
},
XOptionalHeader: {
description: 'Not really needed',
required: false
}
]
end
A common hack to extend Grape with custom DSL methods was manipulating @last_description
.
module Grape
module Extensions
module SortExtension
def sort(value)
@last_description ||= {}
@last_description[:sort] ||= {}
@last_description[:sort].merge! value
value
end
end
Grape::API.extend self
end
end
You could access this value from within the API with route.route_sort
or, more generally, via env['api.endpoint'].options[:route_options][:sort]
.
This will no longer work, use the documented and supported route_setting
.
module Grape
module Extensions
module SortExtension
def sort(value)
route_setting :sort, sort: value
value
end
end
Grape::API.extend self
end
end
To retrieve this value at runtime from within an API, use env['api.endpoint'].route_setting(:sort)
and when introspecting a mounted API, use route.route_settings[:sort]
.
It used to be possible to fetch an API class variable from a helper function. For example:
@@static_variable = 42
helpers do
def get_static_variable
@@static_variable
end
end
get do
get_static_variable
end
This will no longer work. Use a class method instead of a helper.
@@static_variable = 42
def self.get_static_variable
@@static_variable
end
get do
get_static_variable
end
For more information see #836.
To implement a custom validator, you need to inherit from Grape::Validations::Base
instead of Grape::Validations::Validator
.
For more information see Custom Validators in the documentation.
In previous versions raising Grape::Exceptions::Validation
required a single param
.
raise Grape::Exceptions::Validation, param: :id, message_key: :presence
The param
argument has been deprecated and is now an array of params
, accepting multiple values.
raise Grape::Exceptions::Validation, params: [:id], message_key: :presence
Routes will no longer get file-type suffixes added if you declare a single API format
. For example,
class API < Grape::API
format :json
get :hello do
{ hello: 'world' }
end
end
Pre-0.10.0, this would respond with JSON to /hello
, /hello.json
, /hello.xml
, /hello.txt
, etc.
Now, this will only respond with JSON to /hello
, but will be a 404 when trying to access /hello.json
, /hello.xml
, /hello.txt
, etc.
If you declare further content_type
s, this behavior will be circumvented. For example, the following API will respond with JSON to /hello
, /hello.json
, /hello.xml
, /hello.txt
, etc.
class API < Grape::API
format :json
content_type :json, 'application/json'
get :hello do
{ hello: 'world' }
end
end
See the the updated API Formats documentation and #809 for more info.
Permitted and default parameter values are now only evaluated lazily for each request when declared as a proc. The following code would raise an error at startup time.
params do
optional :v, values: -> { [:x, :y] }, default: -> { :z }
end
Remove the proc to get the previous behavior.
params do
optional :v, values: [:x, :y], default: :z
end
See #801 for more information.
If version is used with a block, the callbacks defined within that version block are not scoped to that individual block. In other words, the callback would be inherited by all versions blocks that follow the first one e.g
class API < Grape::API
resource :foo do
version 'v1', :using => :path do
before do
@output ||= 'hello1'
end
get '/' do
@output += '-v1'
end
end
version 'v2', :using => :path do
before do
@output ||= 'hello2'
end
get '/:id' do
@output += '-v2'
end
end
end
end
when making a API call GET /foo/v2/1
, the API would set instance variable @output
to hello1-v2
See #898 for more information.
The following middleware classes have been removed:
Grape::Middleware::Auth::Basic
Grape::Middleware::Auth::Digest
Grape::Middleware::Auth::OAuth2
When you use theses classes directly like:
module API
class Root < Grape::API
class Protected < Grape::API
use Grape::Middleware::Auth::OAuth2,
token_class: 'AccessToken',
parameter: %w(access_token api_key)
you have to replace these classes.
As replacement can be used
Grape::Middleware::Auth::Basic
=>Rack::Auth::Basic
Grape::Middleware::Auth::Digest
=>Rack::Auth::Digest::MD5
Grape::Middleware::Auth::OAuth2
=> warden-oauth2 or rack-oauth2
If this is not possible you can extract the middleware files from grape v0.7.0 and host these files within your application
See #703 for more information.
Assume you have the following exception classes defined.
class ParentError < StandardError; end
class ChildError < ParentError; end
In Grape <= 0.6.1, the rescue_from
keyword only handled the exact exception being raised. The following code would rescue ParentError
, but not ChildError
.
rescue_from ParentError do |e|
# only rescue ParentError
end
This made it impossible to rescue an exception hieararchy, which is a more sensible default. In Grape 0.7.0 or newer, both ParentError
and ChildError
are rescued.
rescue_from ParentError do |e|
# rescue both ParentError and ChildError
end
To only rescue the base exception class, set rescue_subclasses: false
.
rescue_from ParentError, rescue_subclasses: false do |e|
# only rescue ParentError
end
See #544 for more information.
In Grape <= 0.6.1, the default status code returned from error!
was 403.
error! "You may not reticulate this spline!" # yields HTTP error 403
This was a bad default value, since 403 means "Forbidden". Change any call to error!
that does not specify a status code to specify one. The new default value is a more sensible default of 500, which is "Internal Server Error".
error! "You may not reticulate this spline!", 403 # yields HTTP error 403
You may also use default_error_status
to change the global default.
default_error_status 400
See #525 for more information.
In Grape <= 0.6.1, group
, optional
and requires
keywords with a block accepted either an Array
or a Hash
.
params do
requires :id, type: Integer
group :name do
requires :first_name
requires :last_name
end
end
This caused the ambiguity and unexpected errors described in #543.
In Grape 0.7.0, the group
, optional
and requires
keywords take an additional type
attribute which defaults to Array
. This means that without a type
attribute, these nested parameters will no longer accept a single hash, only an array (of hashes).
Whereas in 0.6.1 the API above accepted the following json, it no longer does in 0.7.0.
{
"id": 1,
"name": {
"first_name": "John",
"last_name" : "Doe"
}
}
The params
block should now read as follows.
params do
requires :id, type: Integer
requires :name, type: Hash do
requires :first_name
requires :last_name
end
end
See #545 for more information.
In Grape <= 0.5.0, only the first validation error was raised and processing aborted. Validation errors are now collected and a single Grape::Exceptions::ValidationErrors
exception is raised. You can access the collection of validation errors as .errors
.
rescue_from Grape::Exceptions::Validations do |e|
Rack::Response.new({
status: 422,
message: e.message,
errors: e.errors
}.to_json, 422)
end
For more information see #462.