OpenApiInfoSettings

Namespace: RA.Utilities.OpenApi.Settings

Its primary role is to act as a strongly-typed model that can be bound to a section in your appsettings.json file. This allows you to define your API's high-level information—like its title*, version, description, and contact details—in a configuration file instead of hard-coding it in your application's source code.

This class works directly with the DocumentInfoTransformer, which reads the populated settings and applies them to the generated OpenAPI document.

Here's a breakdown of its key benefits:

1. Decouples Configuration from Code: You can update your API's title, version, or contact email without recompiling and redeploying your application.
2. Environment-Specific Documentation: It enables you to have different descriptions or contact points for your Development, Staging, and Production environments by using environment-specific appsettings.json files.
3. Clean Startup Code: It keeps your Program.cs file cleaner by moving static configuration data to the appropriate configuration files.

Properties

Property	Type	Description
Title	string	The title of the API.
Version	string	The version of the API.
Description	string	A short description of the API.
TermsOfService	string (URI)	A URL to the Terms of Service for the API.
Contact	OpenApiContactSettings (object)	The contact information for the exposed API. See details below.
License	OpenApiLicenseSettings (object)	The license information for the exposed API. See details below.

OpenApiContactSettings

Property	Type	Description
Name	string	The identifying name of the contact person/organization.
Email	string	The email address of the contact person/organization.
Url	string (URI)	The URL pointing to the contact information.

OpenApiLicenseSettings

Property	Type	Description
Name	string	The license name used for the API.
Url	string (URI)	A URL to the license used for the API.

Example appsettings.json

{
  "OpenApiInfoSettings": {
    "Info": {
      "Title": "My Awesome API",
      "Version": "v1.0.0",
      "Summary": "A brief and catchy summary of the API.",
      "Description": "This is a more detailed description of the API. It can include **Markdown** for rich text formatting, explaining what the API does, its main features, and how to get started.",
      "TermsOfService": "https://example.com/terms",
      "Contact": {
        "Name": "API Support Team",
        "Url": "https://example.com/support",
        "Email": "support@example.com"
      },
      "License": {
        "Name": "MIT License",
        "Url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"
      }
    }
  }
}