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Previously, if a field nested beneath an optional field was documented and was required, it would be identified as missing even if its optional ancestor was missing. This made it impossible to document required fields of an optional subsection of a payload. This commit updates JsonContentHandler to consider a field’s ancestors when determining if it should be reported as missing. If the field field has an optional ancestor that is not present, the field is not considered to be missing if it too is not present. If the field has an optional ancestor that is present then the field is considered to be missing if it is not present. Closes gh-429
Spring REST Docs 
Overview
The primary goal of this project is to make it easy to document RESTful services by combining content that's been hand-written using Asciidoctor with auto-generated examples produced with the Spring MVC Test framework. The result is intended to be an easy-to-read user guide, akin to GitHub's API documentation for example, rather than the fully automated, dense API documentation produced by tools like Swagger.
For a broader introduction see the Documenting RESTful APIs presentation. Both the slides and a video recording are available.
Learning more
To learn more about Spring REST Docs, please consult the reference documentation.
Building from source
You will need Java 7 or later to build Spring REST Docs. It is built using Gradle:
./gradlew build
Contributing
Contributors to this project agree to uphold its code of conduct.
There are several that you can contribute to Spring REST Docs:
- Open a pull request. Please see the contributor guidelines for details.
- Ask and answer questions on Stack Overflow using the
spring-restdocstag. - Chat with fellow users on Gitter.
Third-party extensions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| restdocs-wiremock | Auto-generate WireMock stubs as part of documenting your RESTful API |
| restdocsext-jersey | Enables Spring REST Docs to be used with Jersey's test framework |
| spring-auto-restdocs | Uses introspection and Javadoc to automatically document request and response parameters |
Licence
Spring REST Docs is open source software released under the Apache 2.0 license.