Swagger / OpenAPI spec featuring file upload rejected by Google Endpoints

Question:

My goal is to set up a simple API for uploading a file via Google Endpoints.

This is my simplified OpenAPI specification which is valid according to Swagger validation:

swagger: "2.0"
info:
  title: "JSON Ingester"
  description: "Receive JSON files, transform and load them."
  version: "1.0.0"

host: "project-id.appspot.com"
schemes:
  - "https"

paths:
  /uploadFile:
    post:
      operationId: uploadFile
      consumes:
        - multipart/form-data
      parameters:
        - 
          in: formData
          name: upfile
          type: file
          description: file
      responses:
        200:
          description: "File uploaded."
        400:
          description: "Error during file upload."

I always end up with this obscure error message:

user@cloudshell:~/google-cloud-json-ingester (project-id)$ gcloud endpoints services deploy ./openapi.yaml
ERROR: (gcloud.endpoints.services.deploy) INVALID_ARGUMENT: Cannot convert to service config.
'location: "openapi.yaml: Operation 'post' in path '/uploadFile'"
message: "Operation does not require an API key; callers may invoke the method without specifying an associated API-consuming project. To enable API key all the SecurityRequirement Objects (https://gi
thub.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/master/versions/2.0.md#security-requirement-object) inside security definition must reference at least one SecurityDefinition of type : 'apiKey'."
 location: "unknown location"
kind: ERROR
message: "http: repeated message field 'google.protobuf.Struct.fields' referred to by message 'UploadFileRequest' cannot be mapped as an HTTP parameter."
 location: "unknown location"
kind: ERROR
message: "http: cyclic message field 'google.protobuf.Struct.FieldsEntry.value' referred to by message 'UploadFileRequest' in method 'method 1.project_id_appspot_com.UploadFile' cannot
 be mapped as an HTTP parameter."
 location: "unknown location"
kind: ERROR
message: "http: cyclic message field 'google.protobuf.ListValue.values' referred to by message 'UploadFileRequest' in method 'method 1.project_id_appspot_com.UploadFile' cannot be mapp
ed as an HTTP parameter."
'

I’ve run out of ideas as to what might be the cause.

Any suggestions?

Asked By: Raffael

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Answers:

Looks like it requires at least some authentication: https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/openapi/authentication-method

I also think that Cloud Endpoints don’t support type: file, so you have to use type: string and use equivalent to curl -X POST -F “[email protected]http://myservice.com/endpoint to upload.

Answered By: Samo Turk

I ran into this problem today and created a repro. I believe that your issue likely lies in the order of:

in: formData
name: upfile

If you are still seeing this issue, can you please try reversing the order:

name: upfile
in: formData

Answered By: Ian MacLeish

I solved this by copying and pasting my swagger file into https://editor.swagger.io/ to identify bugs and referencing https://swagger.io/specification/v2/ to fix the errors.

Answered By: Ryan Sneyd