This project is archived. I moved away from using swagger-core in general, I am very happy about it and I cannot support this plugin anymore. If you are interested in using it and you need some modifications, I suggest forking it. Alternatively - if you are able to - move away to endpoints or tapir.

This plugin is a sbt wrapper for a Swagger Akka HTTP, that allows you to generate one (or more) Swagger JSON files during build instead of doing it in runtime.

As such you can annotate your APIs, the same way you did in Swagger Akka HTTP. Then you can generate swagger.json only after you modified files, remove all dependencies from build, and use getFromResource("swagger.json") to serve it.

• I wanted to limit dependencies used in runtime - as I used Circe and Jaws for JSON, shipping separate library (Jackson) as well as quite a lot other dependencies just for Swagger seems like unnnecessary overhead,
• annotation-based Swagger generators use runtime reflection - for some people that solution itself is a disadvantage,
• when I tried to create a native image in GraalVM, it failed due to usage of reflection - moving Swagger generation to build stage is a part of the effort of overall removal of runtime reflection in my projects,
• https://github.com/hootsuite/sbt-swagger is outdated: it isn't migrated to sbt 1.0.0 and uses older version of Swagger.

First add plugin to project/plugins.sbt file:

addSbtPlugin("io.scalaland" % "sbt-swagger-2" % sbtSwagger2Version)

Project basically reuse all constructs from Swagger Akka HTTP. It add aliases for them in io.scalaland.sbtswagger2.SbtSwagger2Plugin.autoImport, so classes used for creating config can be found within Swagger object.

// API v1
swaggerOutputs += Swagger.Output(
  inputFilter = clazz => Set(
    "backend.healthcheck",
    "backend.auth",
    "backend.api.v1"
  ).exists(prefix => clazz.getName.startsWith(prefix)),
  output = (Compile / classDirectory).value / "docs" / "v1" / "swagger.json",
  host = "http://localhost",
  schemes = List(Swagger.Scheme.HTTP, Swagger.Scheme.HTTPS),
  securitySchemeDefinitions = Map("token" -> new Swagger.OAuth2Definition().password("/auth")),
  info = Swagger.Info(
    title = "Backend API v1",
    version = version.value,
    description = """V1 API description""".stripMargin
  )
)

// API v2
swaggerOutputs += Swagger.Output(
  inputFilter = clazz => Set(
    "backend.healthcheck",
    "backend.auth",
    "backend.api.v2"
  ).exists(prefix => clazz.getName.startsWith(prefix)),
  ...
)

It adds however whilelisting ability, so that one could cherry-pick classes to use in each of (potentially) many files.

Once configured one can run it with:

sbt> swaggerGenerate

This plugin requires sbt 1.1.0+.

So far I haven't found a way to run generator automatically after each compilation without having issue with circular depenendencies and sbt freeze, so you should select resources dir as the target and run swaggerGenerate manually.