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Discussion on: How to Document an Express API with Swagger UI and JSDoc

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Shuwen

GET /users/:id doesn't work for me. I change it to GET /users/{id}, which works.

In the api-docs, once I input id number and click execute, here is the difference:

/users/{id}
curl -X GET "localhost:3000/users/1" -H "accept: application/json"

/users/:id
curl -X GET "localhost:3000/users/:id" -H "accept: application/json"

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Raphael Habereder

Good find! And also, welcome to DEV :)

As far as I know, swagger implements {} as template delimiters, not colons, but I'm not using node a lot (yet), so maybe I am missing something here.
I can't find any information in the swagger-docs that mention the colon-style, so input from @kabartolo would be great here :)

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Kate Bartolo

Hi Shuwen!
I'm really glad you pointed this out because it's totally a bug. I'm not sure why I thought :id worked, but you're right that it doesn't.

I'll update the tutorial and sample project. Thank you!

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Shuwen

Hi Kate, Thank you your article to help me setting up my swagger documentation. One of the best article I find and I've recommend it to my coworkers.

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Kate Bartolo

Thank you so much! I'm happy it was helpful