vacuum

README

vacuum - The world's fastest OpenAPI & Swagger linter.

An ultra-super-fast, lightweight OpenAPI linter and quality checking tool, inspired by Spectral.

It's also compatible with existing Spectral rulesets.

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vacuum can suck all the lint of a 5mb OpenAPI spec in about 250ms.

Designed to reliably lint OpenAPI specifications, very, very quickly. Including very large ones. Spectral can be quite slow when used as an API and does not scale for enterprise applications.

Vacuum will tell you what is wrong with your spec, why, where and how to fix it.

Vacuum will work at scale and is designed as a CLI (with a UI) and a library to be consumed in other applications.

Dashboard

vacuum comes with an interactive dashboard (vacuum dashboard <your-openapi-spec.yaml>) allowing you to explore rules and violations in a console, without having to scroll through thousands of results.

HTML Report

vacuum can generate an easy to navigate and understand HTML report. Like the dashboard you can explore broken rules and violations, but in your browser.

No external dependencies, the HTML report will run completely offline.

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If you want to try out vacuum in its earliest stages

Please be warned, this is early code. I am actively working on it.

Supports OpenAPI Version 2 (Swagger) and Version 3+

You can use either YAML or JSON vacuum supports both.

Check out the code

git clone https://github.com/daveshanley/vacuum.git

Change directory into vacuum

cd vacuum

Build the code

go build vacuum.go

Run the code

./vacuum lint <your-openapi-spec.yaml>

Running vacuum via Docker

vacuum is available as a container, you can pull the image from Docker Hub

docker pull dshanley/vacuum

or you can pull it from Github packages.

docker pull ghcr.io/daveshanley/vacuum:latest

To run, just add docker dshanley/vacuum as your command, like so

docker dshanley/vacuum lint <your-openapi-spec.yaml>

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👉 Please note, the flags and commands below will change as the experience is refined. 👈

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Build an interactive HTML report

./vacuum html-report <your-openapi-spec.yaml | vacuum-report.json.gz> <report-name.html>

You can replace report-name.html with your own choice of filename. Open the report in your favorite browser and explore the results.

See full linting report

./vacuum lint -d <your-openapi-spec.yaml>

See full linting report with inline code snippets

./vacuum lint -d -s <your-openapi-spec.yaml>

See just the linting errors

./vacuum lint -d -e <your-openapi-spec.yaml>

See just a specific category of report

./vacuum lint -d -c schemas <your-openapi-spec.yaml>

The options here are:

• examples
• operations
• information
• descriptions
• schemas
• security
• tags
• validation

Generate a Spectral compatible report

If you're already using Spectral JSON reports, and you want to use vacuum instead, use the spectral-report command

./vacuum spectral-report <your-openapi-spec.yaml> <report-output-name.json>

The report file name is optional. The default report output name is vacuum-spectral-report.json

Generate a vacuum report

Vacuum reports are complete snapshots in time of a linting report for a specification. These reports can be 'replayed' back through vacuum. Use the dashboard or the html-report commands to 'replay' the report and explore the results as they were when the report was generated.

./vacuum report -c <your-openapi-spec.yaml> <report-prefix>

The default name of the report will be vacuum-report-MM-DD-YY-HH_MM_SS.json. You can change the prefix by supplying it as the second argument to the report command.

Ideally, you should compress the report using -c. This shrinks down the size significantly. vacuum automatically recognizes a compressed report file and will deal with it automatically when reading.

When using compression, the file name will be vacuum-report-MM-DD-YY-HH_MM_SS.json.gz. vacuum uses gzip internally.

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Try out the dashboard

This is an early, but working console UI for vacuum. The code isn't great, it needs a lot of clean up, but if you're interested in seeing how things are progressing, it's available.

./vacuum dashboard <your-openapi-spec.yaml | vacuum-report.json.gz>

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Supply your own Spectral ruleset

If you're already using Spectral and you have your own custom ruleset, then you can use it with Vacuum!

The lint, dashboard and spectral-report commands all accept a -r or --ruleset flag, defining the path to your ruleset file.

Here are some examples you can try

All rules turned off

./vacuum lint -r rulesets/examples/norules-ruleset.yaml <your-openapi-spec.yaml>

Only recommended rules

./vacuum lint -r rulesets/examples/recommended-ruleset.yaml <your-openapi-spec.yaml>

Enable specific rules only

./vacuum lint -r rulesets/examples/specific-ruleset.yaml <your-openapi-spec.yaml>

Custom rules

./vacuum lint -r rulesets/examples/custom-ruleset.yaml <your-openapi-spec.yaml>

_All rules, all of them!

./vacuum lint -r rulesets/examples/all-ruleset.yaml <your-openapi-spec.yaml>

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Let me know what you think.