Loads OAI specs

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Loads OAI v2 API specification documents from local or remote locations.

Supports JSON and YAML documents.

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Status

API is stable.

Import this library in your project

go get github.com/go-openapi/loads

Basic usage

  import (
	  "github.com/go-openapi/loads"
  )

  ...

	// loads a YAML spec from a http file
	doc, err := loads.Spec(ts.URL)
  
  ...

  // retrieves the object model for the API specification
  spec := doc.Spec()

  ...

See also the provided examples.

Change log

See https://github.com/go-openapi/loads/releases

Licensing

This library ships under the SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0.

Other documentation

• All-time contributors
• Contributing guidelines
• Maintainers documentation
• Code style

Cutting a new release

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• running this workflow
• or pushing a semver tag
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