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Generate Swagger spec from persistent and serial classes in InterSystems IRIS

Recently I needed to generate a Swagger spec from persistent and serial classes, so I'm publishing my code (it's not complete - you still need to hash out the application specifics, but it's a start). It's available here.

Let's say you have these classes:

Class REST.Test.Person Extends %Persistent
{

/// Person's name.
Property Name As %String [ Required ];

/// Person's Social Security number. This is validated using pattern match.
Property SSN As %String [ Required ];

/// Person's Date of Birth.
Property DOB As %Date;

/// Person's home address. This uses an embedded object.
Property Home As Address;

/// Person's office address. This uses an embedded object.
Property Office As Address;

/// Person's spouse. This is a reference to another persistent object.
Property Spouse As Person;

/// A collection of strings representing the person's favorite colors.
Property FavoriteColors As list Of %String;

/// A collection of strings representing the person's favorite colors.
Property FavoriteNumbers As array Of %Integer;

/// Person's age.<br>
/// This is a calculated field whose value is derived from <property>DOB</property>.
Property Age As %Integer;

}

Class REST.Test.Address Extends %SerialObject
{

/// The street address.
Property Street As %String(MAXLEN = 80);

/// The city name.
Property City As %String(MAXLEN = 80);

/// The 2-letter state abbreviation.
Property State As %String(MAXLEN = 2);

/// The 5-digit U.S. Zone Improvement Plan (ZIP) code.
Property Zip As %String(MAXLEN = 5);
}
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You can automatically generate this Swagger definition from them:

 REST.Test.Person:
   type: "object"
   properties:
     Age:
       type: "integer"
     DOB:
       type: "string"
     FavoriteColors:
       type: "array"
       items:
         type: "string"
     FavoriteNumbers:
       type: "object"
     Home:
       $ref: "#/definitions/REST.Test.Address"
     Name:
       type: "string"
     Office:
       $ref: "#/definitions/REST.Test.Address"
     SSN:
       type: "string"
     Spouse:
       $ref: "#/definitions/REST.Test.Person"
 REST.Test.Address:
   type: "object"
   properties:
     City:
       type: "string"
     State:
       type: "string"
     Street:
       type: "string"
     Zip:
       type: "string"
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Main method: Utils.YAML:GenerateClasses

Test run: do ##class(Utils.YAML).Test()

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