Swagger Editor shows the "Schema error: should NOT have additional properties" error for a path parameter

Question

I'm using http://editor.swagger.io to design an API and I get an error which I don't know how to address:

Schema error at paths['/employees/{employeeId}/roles'].get.parameters[0]
should NOT have additional properties
additionalProperty: type, format, name, in, description
Jump to line 24

I have other endpoints defined in a similar way, and don't get this error. I wondered if I had some issue with indentation or unclosed quotes, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Google also did not seem to provide any useful results.

swagger: "2.0"
info:
  description: Initial draft of the API specification
  version: '1.0'
  title: App 4.0 API
host: api.com
basePath: /v1
tags:
  - name: employees
    description: Employee management
schemes:
  - https
paths:
  /employees/{employeeId}/roles:
    get:
      tags:
        - employees
      summary: "Get a specific employee's roles"
      description: ''
      operationId: findEmployeeRoles
      produces:
        - application/json
      parameters:
        - name: employeeId   <====== Line 24
          in: path
          description: Id of employee whose roles we are fetching
          type: integer
          format: int64
      responses:
        '200':
          description: successful operation
          schema:
            type: array
            items:
              $ref: '#/definitions/Role'
        '403':
          description: No permission to see employee roles
        '404':
          description: EmployeeId not found

Any Hints?

Solution 1

The error message is misleading. The actual error is that your path parameter is missing required: true. Path parameters are always required, so remember to add required: true to them.

Solution 2

Had the same problem. I accidentally mixed up the syntax from Swagger 2.0 with Openapi 3.0.x. In Openapi 3.0.x, definitions are redefined as components. In the online editor you can click on the button Edit > Convert to OpenAPI 3 to use Openapi 3.0.x.

Read more about components here.

Remark:

OAS 3 is the latest version of the OpenAPI Specification.

Solution 3

For me the cause of the error was a missing a leading slash in the path (internal/resource instead of /internal/resource).

And yes the error message is extremely unhelpful.

Comments

[absay]

I have required: true in my definition and I'm still getting that error.

[Mocas]

In my case, I had required true and still the same error, found that the issue was indentation of get misplaced

[Wayne Conrad]

The tip to use the online editor to get a better error message was key to solving my problem.

[Akhha8]

your link to editor.swagger.io works, better error messages, thanks!