past lance
Hey. I want to start an API server with Swagger documentation but in runtime as a part of a bot.
The issue is that swagger does not want to infer class-validator decorator's types in my DTOs.
How can I start nestjs in runtime with the full functionality of the @nestjs/cli?
Error appended as a file because I guess it is too big for discord
vivid marsh
Hey. I want to start an API server with `Swagger` documentation but in runtime a...
i dont think it's a swagger problem
it's a circular dependency
are you using forwared ref or inject in the service?
past lance
I mean if I manually specify the type in swagger @ApiProperty decorator everything works fine
I'm 99% sure there are no circular deps because if I manually specify the types in the DTOs it runs fine
vivid marsh
try to set this in the api property type: () => ClassType
@ApiProperty({ type: () => ClassType})
past lance
That is the thing, I want swagger to infer the types from class-validator decorators
If I run the API with the cli tool it infers the types just fine
But if I start the API manually at runtime that error appears
astral sonnet
I'm pretty sure class-validator has nothing to do with this error
What do you mean by"start with the cli tool" and "start the API manually"
past lance
What do you mean by"start with the cli tool" and "start the API manually"
I mean start my bot with tsx on main file and import the api file in it
Not start the api file with the cli's nest start command
astral sonnet
So, nest start is returning the error?
If so, I'd assume tsx is adding in a resolution for the circular dependency that is being repeated
past lance
No nest start is running fine. Starting the full project with tsx is giving that error if I dont manually specify the types
And I dont want to do that when swagger can infer class-validator types
astral sonnet
But swagger can't infer from the class-validator types. Not by default at least
Nest has a cli plug-in that can, but that happens at the compile time step via adding type code to the files before they are compiled
past lance
But swagger can't infer from the class-validator types. Not by default at least
Not sure if it doesnt do that by default but I do know that it you can set the classValidatorShim option in nest-cli.json
astral sonnet
Yes, that shim is for the nest-cli plugin. It can be made to work with webpack as well, but generally isn't made to be compiler agnostic, so unless you are running nest start from within your tsx main file, that plugin is not being ran
past lance
And there is no way to run the plugin manually? Dang
astral sonnet
The plugin requires access to the source code so it can be modified as a stringg before sending it on to the compiler. It's really not ergonomic to try and mess with that