Swagger: Build request body

Using ‘requestBody’ element, you can build request body in swagger editor.

Example

  /employees:
      post:
        description: Add new employee to the organization
        requestBody:
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  firstName:
                    type: string
                    example: ram
                  lastName:
                    type: string
                    example: gurram
        responses:
          201:
            description: New Employee is created
            content:
              application/json:
                schema:
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    firstName:
                      type: string
                      example: ram
                    lastName:
                      type: string
                      example: gurram
                    id:
                      type: integer
                      example: 1234

data.yaml

openapi: 3.0.0
info:
  title: Customer Data Aceess API
  description: API to expose all the CRUD operations on  customers
  contact:
    name: Krishna
    email: krishna123@abc.com
    url: https://self-learning-java-tutorial.blogspot.com/
  version: 1.0.0
paths:
  /employees/{employeeId}:
    get:
      parameters: 
      - in: path
        name: employeeId
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
          example: 123
      responses:
        200:
          description: Get Specific Employee Details
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  id:
                    type: integer
                    example: 123
                  name:
                    type: string
                    example: krishna
  /employees:
      post:
        description: Add new employee to the organization
        requestBody:
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  firstName:
                    type: string
                    example: ram
                  lastName:
                    type: string
                    example: gurram
        responses:
          201:
            description: New Employee is created
            content:
              application/json:
                schema:
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    firstName:
                      type: string
                      example: ram
                    lastName:
                      type: string
                      example: gurram
                    id:
                      type: integer
                      example: 1234
                  
      get:
        parameters: 
          - in: query
            name: from
            description: Page number to return
            required: true
            schema:
              type: integer
              example: 1
          - in: query
            name: size
            description: Number of elements to return
            required: false
            schema:
              type: integer
              example: 10
              minimum: 10
              maximum: 100
          - in: header
            name: onetime_token
            description: token to be used at the time of login
            required: false
            schema:
              type: string
              example: 08c3372a-9314-49d6-b9dd-ff212c1715a5
        responses:
          200:
            description: List of all the employees in organization
            content:
               application/json:
                  schema:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      properties:
                        id:
                          type: integer
                          example: 1234
                        name:
                          type: string
                          example: Krishna

Add the content of data.yaml to swagger editor, you can see the API definition in right side of the window.

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