use this client with a swagger spec on local machine?

I want to use the client as following in my code:

var SwaggerClient = require('swagger-client');

var client = new SwaggerClient({
  url: '../swagger/sampleSwaggerAPI.yaml',
  success: function() {
   ...  
 }
});

Is that doable or does this work only with hosted swagger specs only?

@fehguy ^ thoughts please.

[fehguy]

hi @gunjpan, can you load the contents of your ../swagger/sampleSwaggerApi.yaml as an object? If so, you can easily do this:

// you load the `spec` as an object
var spec = { swagger: '2.0', ....};
new SwaggerClient({
  url: 'STILL_NEEDED!',
  spec: spec,
  ...
}

Then the object can be loaded however you like, and the swagger client will process it. Note! The url field is still needed. Why might you ask? Because there may be references to other swagger constructs inside your object, and the client will need that for resolving them.

[gunjpan]

@waytoharish : here is where I’m using SwaggerClient : https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-connector-swagger/blob/a656eedd5490869152ed3e62a708bc4de13bf00d/lib/swagger-connector.js#L107-L119

and here is the function where I’m parsing a local file: https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-connector-swagger/blob/a656eedd5490869152ed3e62a708bc4de13bf00d/lib/spec-resolver.js#L14

Hope that helps