Swagger $ref http responses

Question

I am newbie to Swagger, and am working on API operations which create generic http response codes:-

• '401: Unauthorized

• '403': Forbidden

• '404': Not found
• '500': : Internal Server Error

I tried $ref: #/definitions/responses by defining responses but got an error. Is there a way to do this?, to avoid redundant block of code after each operation. Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Found answer for this,

This can be done for referencing generic responses from some other file(in my case). Can be referenced from within a file as well.

 '400':
      $ref: _http-responses.yaml#/400
    '401':
      $ref: _http-responses.yaml#/401
    '403':
      $ref: _http-responses.yaml#/403
    '404':
      $ref: _http-responses.yaml#/404
    '500':
      $ref: _http-responses.yaml#/500

I created

_http_responses.yaml

and then referenced it.