Refitter.SourceGenerator 0.8.1

Source Generator

Refitter is available as a C# Source Generator that uses the Refitter.Core library for generating a REST API Client using the Refit library. Refitter can generate the Refit interface from OpenAPI specifications

The Refitter source generator is a bit untraditional in a sense that it creates a folder called Generated in the same location as the .refitter file and generates files to disk under the Generated folder (can be changed with --outputFolder). The source generator output should be included in the project and committed to source control. This is done because there is no other way to trigger the Refit source generator to pickup the Refitter generated code

(Translation: I couldn't for the life of me figure how to get that to work, sorry)

Installation

The source generator is distributed as a NuGet package and should be installed to the project that will contain the generated code

dotnet add package Refitter.SourceGenerator

Usage

This source generator generates code based on any .refitter file included to the project as AdditionalFiles.

The generator can automatically detect all .refitter files inside the project that referenced the Refitter.SourceGenerator package and there is no need to include them manually as AdditionalFiles

.Refitter File format

The following is an example .refitter file

{
  "openApiPath": "/path/to/your/openAPI", // Required
  "namespace": "Org.System.Service.Api.GeneratedCode", // Optional. Default=GeneratedCode
  "naming": {
    "useOpenApiTitle": false, // Optional. Default=true
    "interfaceName": "MyApiClient" // Optional. Default=ApiClient
  },
  "generateContracts": true, // Optional. Default=true
  "generateXmlDocCodeComments": true, // Optional. Default=true
  "addAutoGeneratedHeader": true, // Optional. Default=true
  "addAcceptHeaders": true, // Optional. Default=true
  "returnIApiResponse": false, // Optional. Default=false
  "generateOperationHeaders": true, // Optional. Default=true
  "typeAccessibility": "Public", // Optional. Values=Public|Internal. Default=Public
  "useCancellationTokens": false, // Optional. Default=false
  "useIsoDateFormat": false, // Optional. Default=false
  "multipleInterfaces": "ByEndpoint", // Optional. May be one of "ByEndpoint" or "ByTag"
  "generateDeprecatedOperations": false, // Optional. Default=true
  "operationNameTemplate": "{operationName}Async", // Optional. Must contain {operationName}
  "optionalParameters": false, // Optional. Default=false
  "outputFolder": "../CustomOutput" // Optional. Default=./Generated
  "additionalNamespaces": [ // Optional
    "Namespace1",
    "Namespace2"
  ],
  "includeTags": [ // Optional. OpenAPI Tag to include when generating code
    "Pet",
    "Store",
    "User"
  ],
  "includePathMatches": [ // Optional. Only include Paths that match the provided regular expression
    "^/pet/.*",
    "^/store/.*"
  ]
}

• openApiPath - points to the OpenAPI Specifications file. This can be the path to a file stored on disk, relative to the .refitter file. This can also be a URL to a remote file that will be downloaded over HTTP/HTTPS
• namespace - the namespace used in the generated code. If not specified, this defaults to GeneratedCode
• naming.useOpenApiTitle - a boolean indicating whether the OpenApi title should be used. Default is true
• naming.interfaceName - the name of the generated interface. The generated code will automatically prefix this with I so if this set to MyApiClient then the generated interface is called IMyApiClient. Default is ApiClient
• generateContracts - a boolean indicating whether contracts should be generated. A use case for this is several API clients use the same contracts. Default is true
• generateXmlDocCodeComments - a boolean indicating whether XML doc comments should be generated. Default is true
• addAutoGeneratedHeader - a boolean indicating whether XML doc comments should be generated. Default is true
• addAcceptHeaders - a boolean indicating whether to add accept headers [Headers("Accept: application/json")]. Default is true
• returnIApiResponse - a boolean indicating whether to return IApiResponse<T> objects. Default is false
• generateOperationHeaders - a boolean indicating whether to use operation headers in the generated methods. Default is true
• typeAccessibility - the generated type accessibility. Possible values are Public and Internal. Default is Public
• useCancellationTokens - Use cancellation tokens in the generated methods. Default is false
• useIsoDateFormat - Set to true to explicitly format date query string parameters in ISO 8601 standard date format using delimiters (for example: 2023-06-15). Default is false
• multipleInterfaces - Set to ByEndpoint to generate an interface for each endpoint, or ByTag to group Endpoints by their Tag (like SwaggerUI groups them).
• outputFolder - a string describing a relative path to a desired output folder. Default is ./Generated
• additionalNamespaces - A collection of additional namespaces to include in the generated file. A use case for this is when you want to reuse contracts from a different namespace than the generated code. Default is empty
• includeTags - A collection of tags to use a filter for including endpoints that contain this tag.
• includePathMatches - A collection of regular expressions used to filter paths.
• generateDeprecatedOperations - a boolean indicating whether deprecated operations should be generated or skipped. Default is true
• operationNameTemplate - Generate operation names using pattern. This must contain the string {operationName}. An example usage of this could be {operationName}Async to suffix all method names with Async
• optionalParameters - Generate non-required parameters as nullable optional parameters