Migrating to 7.x

The 7.x release only has a few minor breaking changes to be aware of:

Authentication / remote schema fetching

In 7.x, all remote schema fetching is handled via the Redocly CLI. This means you’ll need to move your authentication settings to a redocly.config.yml config file (docs).

TypeScript AST

7.x introduces the TypeScript AST rather than simple string transformations. This applies to the core Node.js API, which now returns a TypeScript AST, as well as the options transform() and postTransform(). The Node.js API docs have been updated with relevant examples to help.

defaultNonNullable: true by default

The CLI and Node.js API now have --default-non-nullable behavior enabled by default. This means if a schema object has a default value, it will be treated as if it’s required (with the exception of parameters).

Globbing replaced with Redocly config

7.x can still generate multiple schemas at once, but rather than globbing that forces you to follow a particular naming schema, you’ll declare a redocly.config.yaml file that lists every input schema and where its associated generated types should go. This allows more flexibility in naming and organizing multiple schemas.

But the neat part is with a redocly.config.yml file declared, you can simply run the CLI command with no arguments (docs):

npx openapi-typescript

Node.js API input types

The input types have changed slightly in 7.x to be more predictable and versatile.

import openapiTS from "openapi-typescript";

await openapiTS(input);

Input	6.x	7.x
JSON (object)	Object	Object
JSON (string)	(not supported)	string
YAML (string)	(not supported)	string
Local file	string | URL	URL
Remote file	string | URL	URL

The biggest change is the handling of strings—in 6.x a string could refer to a local or remote filepath, but this was unpredictable because for local filepaths it would depend where Node was called from. In 7.x, all filepaths must be a URL (for local paths, use new URL('./path/to/my/schema', import.meta.url) or new URL('file:///absolute/path/to/my/schema')). This lets the string type handle inline YAML (or JSON) which wasn’t supported in 6.x.

See the updated docs for more info.

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