How to make swagger-ui show certain fields in JSON as required (using springfox-swagger2 & ui)

Question

I am using springfox-swagger2 and springfox-swagger-ui version 2.5.0 dependencies to generate my JSON APIs and also using swagger-ui to show the JSON messages.

Currently swagger ui shows my JSON model with all the fields as optional. How can I specify certain fields to be required. Do I need to annotate any field in my POJO to state that it is required. I am not using any swagger annotations and relying on springfox to generate JSON from my POJOs.

thanks

Answer 1

You must use the 'required' attribute of the @ApiModelProperty annotation

public class LoginResponse {

    @ApiModelProperty(value="User's last name", required = true)
    String firstName;

    @ApiModelProperty(value="User's first name", required = true)
    String lastName;

    public LoginResponse(String firstName, String lastName) {
        this.firstName= firstName;
        this.deviceSecret = lastName;
    }

}