Recursive references.... again!

[saharj]

Recursive references has been an issue for a long time in Swagger Editor. See (swagger-api/swagger-editor#1005, #69, swagger-api/swagger-editor#1012, swagger-api/swagger-editor#1052 and #73).

For Swagger Editor rendering the optimal outcome of a self-referring reference is to resolve it up to N levels.

Can we have an option for resolving recursive references up to N level? It would help Swagger Editor and other UI tools to render the JSON Schemas better.

To see it yourself, paste this Swagger file in Swagger Editor:

---
swagger: '2.0'
info:
  version: 0.0.0
  title: Simple API
paths:
  /:
    get:
      responses:
        200:
          description: OK
definitions:
  person:
    properties:
      friends:
        type: array
        items:
          $ref: "#/definitions/person"

[whitlockjc]

This is a duplicate of #74.

[jeff9finger]

I have a spec that circular references as well. And not always directly.

swagger: '2.0'
info:
  version: 0.0.0
  title: Simple API
paths:
  /:
    get:
      responses:
        200:
          description: OK
definitions:
  service:
    properties:
      name:
        type: string
      account:
        $ref: "#/definitions/account"

  account:
    properties:
      services:
        type: array
        items:
          $ref: "#/definitions/service"