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Daniel Doubrovkine

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Fixing Bugs in the OpenSearch API Documentation using API Spec Tests
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I’ve previously written about the OpenSearch OpenAPI Specification.

One of the neat features of the API spec repo is a set of declarative YAML integration tests. This turned out to be really useful in fixing bugs in the OpenSearch API reference documentation that is published to opensearch.org.

Here’s how I went about it.

To author tests, I started with reading the API documentation. For example, I read the docs for /_refresh, and added tests for that API in opensearch-api-specification#374.

The basic example that refreshes all indices was easy.

$schema: ../../json_schemas/test_story.schema.yaml

description: Test _refresh.

chapters:
  - synopsis: Refresh.
    path: /_refresh
    method: POST
    response:
      status: 200

$ npm run test:spec--insecure -- --tests tests/indices/refresh.yaml

> opensearch_api_tools@1.0.0 test:spec--insecure
> ts-node tools/src/tester/test.ts --opensearch-insecure --tests tests/indices/refresh.yaml

OpenSearch 2.15.0

PASSED  refresh.yaml (.../tests/indices/refresh.yaml)

Then, I tried using the query parameters.

- synopsis: Refresh an index.
    path: /{index}/_refresh
    method: POST
    parameters:
      index: movies
      ignore_unavailable: true
      allow_no_indices: false
      expand_wildcard: all # incorrect

This failed.

$ npm run test:spec--insecure -- --tests tests/indices/refresh.yaml

> opensearch_api_tools@1.0.0 test:spec--insecure
> ts-node tools/src/tester/test.ts --opensearch-insecure --tests tests/indices/refresh.yaml

OpenSearch 2.15.0

ERROR   refresh.yaml (.../tests/indices/refresh.yaml)
    ERROR   CHAPTERS
        PASSED  Refresh.
            PASSED  REQUEST BODY
            PASSED  RESPONSE STATUS
            PASSED  RESPONSE PAYLOAD BODY
            PASSED  RESPONSE PAYLOAD SCHEMA
        ERROR   Refresh an index.
            FAILED  PARAMETERS
                PASSED  ignore_unavailable
                PASSED  allow_no_indices
                FAILED  expand_wildcard (Schema for "expand_wildcard" parameter not found.)
            PASSED  REQUEST BODY
            ERROR   RESPONSE STATUS (Expected status 200, ...)
            SKIPPED RESPONSE PAYLOAD BODY
            SKIPPED RESPONSE PAYLOAD SCHEMA

The failure is with the expand_wildcard parameter, which is misspelled and should be expand_wildcards.

- synopsis: Refresh an index.
    path: /{index}/_refresh
    method: POST
    parameters:
      index: movies
      ignore_unavailable: true
      allow_no_indices: false
      expand_wildcards: all
    response:
      status: 200

The corrected test passes.

$ npm run test:spec--insecure -- --tests tests/indices/refresh.yaml --verbose

> opensearch_api_tools@1.0.0 test:spec--insecure
> ts-node tools/src/tester/test.ts --opensearch-insecure --tests tests/indices/refresh.yaml

OpenSearch 2.15.0

PASSED  refresh.yaml (.../tests/indices/refresh.yaml)
    PASSED  CHAPTERS
        PASSED  Refresh.
            PASSED  REQUEST BODY
            PASSED  RESPONSE STATUS
            PASSED  RESPONSE PAYLOAD BODY
            PASSED  RESPONSE PAYLOAD SCHEMA
        PASSED  Refresh an index.
            PASSED  PARAMETERS
                PASSED  ignore_unavailable
                PASSED  allow_no_indices
                PASSED  expand_wildcards
            PASSED  REQUEST BODY
            PASSED  RESPONSE STATUS
            PASSED  RESPONSE PAYLOAD BODY
            PASSED  RESPONSE PAYLOAD SCHEMA

All we have left is to fix the documentation in documentation-website#7620. I also fixed a bug in PUT mapping in documentation-website#7652 and corrected the type of include_defaults in GET /_settings in documentation-website#7657.

Finally, we’d like to generate a lot of the documentation from spec in documentation-website#7700.