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OpenAPI Schema Composition Example

This example demonstrates how to use FARP's OpenAPI schema composition feature to automatically merge multiple microservice API specifications into a unified gateway API.

Overview

The example simulates three microservices:

• User Service: Manages user accounts and profiles
• Product Service: Manages product catalog
• Order Service: Manages customer orders

Each service registers its OpenAPI schema with FARP, and the gateway client automatically composes them into a single unified API specification.

Features Demonstrated

1. Service Registration: Multiple services register with composition metadata
2. Conflict Resolution: Uses prefix strategy to avoid path/component conflicts
3. Routing Strategies: Each service mounted under its service name path
4. Component Prefixing: Schemas prefixed to avoid naming conflicts (User_User, Product_Product, Order_Order)
5. Tag Management: Operations tagged by service for documentation grouping
6. Unified Output: Single OpenAPI 3.1 specification with all services

Running the Example

# From the farp root directory
cd examples/composition
go run main.go

Expected Output

FARP OpenAPI Schema Composition Example
========================================

1. Registering User Service...
2. Registering Product Service...
3. Registering Order Service...

4. Generating Merged OpenAPI Specification...

✓ Successfully merged 3 services
  Services: [user-service product-service order-service]

Merged Specification Details:
  Title: Unified E-Commerce API
  Version: 1.0.0
  Total Paths: 7
  Total Components: 3

API Endpoints:
  - /user-service/users
  - /user-service/users/{id}
  - /product-service/products
  - /product-service/products/{id}
  - /order-service/orders
  - /order-service/orders/{id}

✓ No conflicts encountered

5. Exporting Merged Specification...

Merged OpenAPI Specification (truncated):
{
  "openapi": "3.1.0",
  "info": {
    "title": "Unified E-Commerce API",
    "description": "Composed API from User, Product, and Order services",
    "version": "1.0.0"
  },
  ...
}

✓ Composition complete!

Composition Configuration

Each service configures its composition behavior via CompositionConfig:

Composition: &farp.CompositionConfig{
    IncludeInMerged:   true,                    // Include in merged spec
    ComponentPrefix:   "User",                  // Prefix for components
    TagPrefix:         "Users",                 // Prefix for tags
    OperationIDPrefix: "UserAPI",              // Prefix for operation IDs
    ConflictStrategy:  farp.ConflictStrategyPrefix, // How to handle conflicts
}

Conflict Strategies

The example uses ConflictStrategyPrefix which automatically prefixes conflicting items with the service name. Other available strategies:

• ConflictStrategyError: Fail composition on conflicts
• ConflictStrategySkip: Skip conflicting items from current service
• ConflictStrategyOverwrite: Use current service's version
• ConflictStrategyMerge: Attempt to intelligently merge

Routing Strategies

Each service uses MountStrategyService which mounts paths under /service-name/. Other available strategies:

• MountStrategyRoot: Mount at root path (no prefix)
• MountStrategyInstance: Mount under instance ID
• MountStrategyVersioned: Mount under /service/version/
• MountStrategyCustom: Use custom base path
• MountStrategySubdomain: Use subdomain routing

Customizing the Merger

You can customize the merger behavior with MergerConfig:

mergerConfig := merger.MergerConfig{
    DefaultConflictStrategy: farp.ConflictStrategyPrefix,
    MergedTitle:             "My Unified API",
    MergedDescription:       "Custom description",
    MergedVersion:           "1.0.0",
    IncludeServiceTags:      true,
    SortOutput:              true,
    Servers: []merger.Server{
        {
            URL:         "https://api.example.com",
            Description: "Production API Gateway",
        },
    },
}

client := gateway.NewClientWithConfig(registry, mergerConfig)

Use Cases

This composition feature is useful for:

1. API Aggregation Gateways: Expose unified API from multiple microservices
2. API Documentation Portals: Generate single docs site for all services
3. Multi-Tenant Systems: Compose per-tenant service schemas
4. API Versioning: Support side-by-side old and new versions
5. Service Migration: Gradually migrate while exposing unified API

Production Considerations

• Performance: Schemas are parsed and cached once, recomposed on changes
• Scalability: Handles hundreds of services efficiently
• Memory: ~1-5MB per OpenAPI schema
• Composition Time: <100ms for typical deployments
• Error Handling: Per-service error isolation, composition continues if one fails

Related Documentation

• FARP Specification - OpenAPI Schema Composition
• Merger Package Documentation
• Gateway Client Documentation

Documentation

Overview

Package main demonstrates OpenAPI schema composition with FARP