c# - How to configure Swashbuckle to ignore property on model

Question

I'm using Swashbuckle to generate swagger documentationUI for a webapi2 project. Our models are shared with some legacy interfaces so there are a couple of properties I want to ignore on the models. I can't use JsonIgnore attribute because the legacy interfaces also need to serialize to JSON so I don't want to ignore the properties globally, just in the Swashbuckle configuration.

I found a method of doing this documented here:

https://github.com/domaindrivendev/Swashbuckle/issues/73

But this appears to be out of date with the current Swashbuckle release.

The method recommended for the old version of Swashbuckle is using an IModelFilter implementation as follows:

public class OmitIgnoredProperties : IModelFilter
{
    public void Apply(DataType model, DataTypeRegistry dataTypeRegistry, Type type)
    {
        var ignoredProperties = … // use reflection to find any properties on 
                                  // type decorated with the ignore attributes

        foreach (var prop in ignoredProperties) 
            model.Properties.Remove(prop.Name);

    }
}

SwaggerSpecConfig.Customize(c => c.ModelFilter<OmitIgnoredProperties>());

But I'm unsure how to configure Swashbuckle to use the IModelFilter in the current version? I'm using Swashbuckle 5.5.3.

Answer 1

If you need to do this but without using JsonIgnore (maybe you still need to serialize/deserialize the property) then just create a custom attribute.

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Property)]
public class SwaggerExcludeAttribute : Attribute
{
}

Then a schema filter similar to Johng's

public class SwaggerExcludeFilter : ISchemaFilter
{
    #region ISchemaFilter Members

    public void Apply(Schema schema, SchemaRegistry schemaRegistry, Type type)
    {
        if (schema?.properties == null || type == null)
            return;

        var excludedProperties = type.GetProperties()
                                     .Where(t => 
                                            t.GetCustomAttribute<SwaggerExcludeAttribute>() 
                                            != null);

        foreach (var excludedProperty in excludedProperties)
        {
            if (schema.properties.ContainsKey(excludedProperty.Name))
                schema.properties.Remove(excludedProperty.Name);
        }
    }

    #endregion
}

Don't forget to register the filter

c.SchemaFilter<SwaggerExcludeFilter>();