ErikWittern
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2 months ago Hi @michaelgwelch, thanks for inquiring!
First off, I know am very inactive w.r.t. this repository. I wrote this code at a time when I was researching APIs at IBM Research. I have since changed jobs and no longer have much need or professional incentives for spending a lot of time maintaining this library, unfortunately.
I have not considered adding more fine-granular controls over parameters or headers. My intuition would be to, by default, include all the information present in a given OpenAPI document, and allow to explicitly exclude them from being included in a generated snippet. One way to do so is to add optional configuration parameters, which allow to "block-list" certain things. Another, likely more extensible and generic, way to exclude certain pieces of information is of course altering the OpenAPI document itself, before passing it to openapi-snippet. I am currently uncertain whether there could be a benefit from openapi-snippet providing a "preprocessing hook" for that purpose.
If time would permit, I would likely want to rewrite the library in TypeScript, ensure compatibility with both CJS and ESM, and make sure it keeps in sync with the latest version of OpenAPI.
michaelgwelch
Hi @ErikWittern I'm maintaining a fork of this great library with some changes we've made.
One additional change I'm considering is to require some explicit "signal" to include a parameter in a code snippet.
The current default behavior can lead to non-sensical snippets or unnecessarily complicated snippets. For example, you may have mutually exclusive parameters. Or you may have headers that are seldom used show up in a snippet. For various reasons I want to control which parameters make it into the snippet.
Had you ever considered this feature when working on your library? I have an idea, but want to be careful of invalidating all existing test cases. So maybe I'll make it a config setting to enable this new mode. Once the mode is enabled I think it'll require vendor extensions on parameters or operations to signal which parameters are desired and which value.