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Lunny Xiao 4e38ace168 feat(api): render and publish the openapi 3.0 documents (#514)
Closes #37.

Gitea generates an OpenAPI 3.0 document since 1.27 (`templates/swagger/v1_openapi3_json.tmpl`, renamed to `templates/swagger/v1-openapi3.generated.json` on main, served by an instance at `/openapi3.v1.json`), but this site never picked it up and still published Swagger 2.0 only. That is what the issue is about: code generators such as `openapi-python-client` reject the document with "You may be trying to use a Swagger document; this is not supported by this project".

**What this does**

- `update_api_docs.sh` downloads the OpenAPI 3.0 document next to the Swagger 2.0 one, rewrites the same placeholders (they sit in `servers` instead of `basePath`) and writes `static/openapi3-latest.json` and `static/openapi3-<minor>.json`. Versions that do not have one (1.26 and older) are skipped with a message and keep their Swagger 2.0 document.
- The OpenAPI 3.0 document is rendered where it exists (`/api/` and `/api/next/`), the older versions keep rendering Swagger 2.0. Both documents describe the same api and carry the same operation ids, so no url of an operation page changes; the `basePath` normalization is now only applied to the Swagger 2.0 documents, since a full url in `servers` is valid.
- The overview page of each version links both documents for download, which is what the issue actually needs: `https://docs.gitea.com/openapi3-27.json` for the current release, `https://docs.gitea.com/openapi3-latest.json` for gitea main.
- The scheduled workflow now refreshes and proposes both documents of gitea main.

**Verification**

- `pnpm dlx @redocly/cli lint static/openapi3-latest.json`: valid, only content warnings that come from upstream (missing 4xx responses, ambiguous paths).
- `openapi-python-client generate --path static/openapi3-latest.json`, the tool from the issue, generates a client. The only warning left is `POST /markdown/raw`, whose request body is `text/plain`.
- Operation ids of `static/swagger-27.json` and `static/openapi3-27.json` are identical (481 on both sides), so the operation pages keep their urls.
- Built the api product and compared a rendered operation page against the Swagger 2.0 one: same sections, the request body is now marked required where the document says so.

The released Swagger 2.0 documents are kept: they are the only description 1.26 and older ever produced, and some tooling still expects them.

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Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/docs/pulls/514
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
2026-08-14 18:31:00 +00:00

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The sources of docs.gitea.com, built with Astro and Starlight.

The site covers three products, all served from this repository:

Product Content Versions Languages
Docs docs/, versioned_docs/, i18n/ next, 1.27 … 1.22 English, 简体中文, 繁體中文
API static/swagger-*.json, static/openapi3-*.json next, 1.27 … 1.22 English
Runner runner-docs/, runner-docs_versioned_docs/ develop, 3 … 0 English

The enterprise documentation is built and deployed from its own repository and reached through /enterprise/, which a Cloudflare worker maintained elsewhere routes to that deployment.

Development

make install       # pnpm install
make serve-fast    # english, the version served at the root, starts in seconds
make serve         # the whole matrix, every version and language
make build         # production build into sites/docs/dist
make check         # type checks the site and its components

Search is built by Pagefind while the site is built, so it only answers on the built site: use make serve-built to try it. With the Algolia credentials (PUBLIC_DOCSEARCH_APP_ID, PUBLIC_DOCSEARCH_API_KEY) set, DocSearch is used instead and works in make serve too.

GITEA_DOCS_PRODUCTS, GITEA_DOCS_VERSIONS and GITEA_DOCS_LOCALES (comma separated) restrict what is built, which is what make serve-fast uses. GITEA_DOCS_STRICT_LINKS=true turns the warnings about unresolved relative markdown links into a build error.

sites/docs/README.md documents how the sources are mapped onto the site.

Writing

Pages are plain markdown with the same frontmatter and admonitions as before: frontmatter slug, sidebar_position and sidebar_label keep working, and so do the :::note style admonitions and the @version@ style release variables. Relative *.md links are rewritten to urls while the site is built.

The order of the top level sidebar groups comes from sidebars.js (and versioned_sidebars/ for released versions), the label and order of every other group from the _category_.json of its directory.

Cutting a version

make cut-version PRODUCT=docs VERSION=1.28
make cut-version PRODUCT=runner VERSION=4

This freezes the current tree, its translations and its sidebar. The label of the version, its release variables (@version@, @dockerVersion@, ...) and which version is served at the root live in packages/content-loader/src/products.ts and are edited by hand afterwards. That file is the single source of truth for the product, version and language matrix.

API docs

The definitions rendered under /api/ live in static/: swagger-latest.json (gitea main) and swagger-<minor>.json (released versions) hold the swagger 2.0 document every gitea version ships, openapi3-latest.json and openapi3-<minor>.json the openapi 3.0 document gitea generates since 1.27. The openapi 3.0 document is what gets rendered where it exists, and both are offered for download on the overview page of the version, since code generators cannot read the rendered pages (and several of them reject swagger 2.0).

make update-api-docs         # refresh latest + every released version
make update-api-docs-latest  # refresh only the documents of gitea main

The documents of gitea main are refreshed automatically: the update api spec files workflow runs every 12 hours and opens a pull request whenever gitea main changed. Released versions are updated by hand when a new gitea version is documented.

Runner docs

Version Content URL
develop runner-docs/ /runner/develop/
current series runner-docs_versioned_docs/version-3/ /runner/
older series runner-docs_versioned_docs/version-2/ /runner/2/

A version directory covers a whole release series (version-3 documents every 3.x release), so a patch release only needs a content update, not a new folder. Use floating image tags (gitea/runner:3) and links to the runner's main branch in those pages to keep them valid across patch releases.

Its sidebar is written by hand: runner-sidebars.js for develop, and runner-docs_versioned_sidebars/version-<version>-sidebars.json per documented version.

The pages under reference/ are generated from the runner sources — the command line reference from --help, the example configuration from generate-config:

make update-runner-docs           # develop docs, from the main branch of gitea/runner
make update-runner-docs-released  # every series, from its newest stable tag
./update_runner_docs.sh v3.0.2 runner-docs_versioned_docs/version-3/reference

These are refreshed automatically as well: the update runner reference workflow runs weekly and opens a pull request whenever the runner's CLI or example configuration changed. Generating them needs Go, since the script builds the runner binary.

Deployment

main is built and published by the Build and Publish Docs site workflow, to S3/CloudFront and to Cloudflare Pages. cloudflare/_headers sets the cache policy and cloudflare/_redirects keeps the urls the site used to serve; both are copied next to the build output by that workflow. cloudflare/docsearch-crawler.json is the Algolia crawler configuration.

/enterprise/ is served by another deployment and routed to it by a Cloudflare worker that lives outside this repository.