OpenFGA API

This project contains the definitions of Protocol Buffers used by OpenFGA.

Buf is used to manage, package, and generate source code from the protocol buffer definitions. The API definitions are pushed to the buf.build/openfga/api repository in the Buf Registry.

Building the Generated Sources

To generate source code from the protobuf definitions contained in this project you can run the following command:

Note: You must have Buf CLI installed to run the following command.

make buf-gen

The command above will generate source code in the proto/ directory. It will also configure a local git hook to check that files requiring auto-generation after .proto changes have been updated. There are some cases where that git hook may be overly strict. In those cases you can bypass it with commit --no-verify.

Use the generated sources in OpenFGA

1. Generate the sources as above
2. In the proto directory execute the following commands:

   go mod init go.buf.build/openfga/go/openfga/api
   go mod tidy
   

3. In OpenFGA, add the following line to your go.mod:

   replace github.com/openfga/api/proto => /path/to/proto
   

Generating OpenAPI Documentation

To generate the OpenAPI documentation from the protobuf sources you can run the following commands:

Note: You must have jq installed to run the format step below

./buf.gen.yaml
./scripts/update_swagger.sh docs/openapiv2/apidocs.swagger.json
buf format -w

Or you can just use

make