Package io.bkbn.kompendium.core

The root package contains several objects that power Kompendium, including the Kompendium Ktor Plugin, route notarization methods, and the reflection engine that analyzes method info type parameters.

Plugin

The Kompendium plugin is an extremely light-weight plugin, with only a couple areas of customization.

Serialization

Kompendium relies on your API to provide a properly-configured ContentNegotiator in order to convert the OpenApiSpec into JSON. The advantage to this approach is that all of your data classes will be serialized precisely how you define. The downside is that issues could exist in serialization frameworks that have not been tested. At the moment, Jackson, Gson and KotlinX serialization have all been tested. If you run into any serialization issues, particularly with a serializer not listed above, please open an issue on GitHub 🙏

Notarization

Central to Kompendium is the concept of notarization.

Notarizing a route is the mechanism by which Kompendium analyzes your route types, along with provided metadata, and converts to the expected OpenAPI format.

Before jumping into notarization, lets first look at a standard Ktor route

routing {
  get {
    call.respond(HttpStatusCode.OK, BasicResponse(c = UUID.randomUUID().toString()))
  }
}

Now, let's compare this to the same functionality, but notarized using Kompendium

routing {
  notarizedGet(simpleGetExample) {
    call.respond(HttpStatusCode.OK, BasicResponse(c = UUID.randomUUID().toString()))
  }
}

Pretty simple huh. But hold on... what is this simpleGetExample? How can I know that it is so "simple". Let's take a look

val simpleGetExample = GetInfo<Unit, BasicResponse>(
  summary = "Simple, Documented GET Request",
  description = "This is to showcase just how easy it is to document your Ktor API!",
  responseInfo = ResponseInfo(
    status = HttpStatusCode.OK,
    description = "This means everything went as expected!",
    examples = mapOf("demo" to BasicResponse(c = "52c099d7-8642-46cc-b34e-22f39b923cf4"))
  ),
  tags = setOf("Simple")
)

See, not so bad 😄 GetInfo<*,*> is an implementation of MethodInfo<TParam, TResp>, a sealed interface designed to encapsulate all the metadata required for documenting an API route. Kompendium leverages this data, along with the provided type parameters TParam and TResp to construct the full OpenAPI Specification for your route.

Additionally, just as a backup, each notarization method includes a "post-processing' hook that will allow you to have final say in the generated route info prior to being attached to the spec. This can be accessed via the optional parameter

routing {
  notarizedGet(simpleGetExample, postProcess = { spec -> spec }) {
    call.respond(HttpStatusCode.OK, BasicResponse(c = UUID.randomUUID().toString()))
  }
}

This should only be used in extremely rare scenarios, but it is nice to know it is there if you need it.