Server Sent Events and Streaming APIs

Use the x-fern-streaming extension to model streaming endpoints

The x-fern-streaming extension allows you to represent endpoints that are streaming.

JSON streaming

If your API returns a series of JSON chunks as seen below

1{ "text": "Hi, I am a" }
2{ "text": "chatbot. Do you have any"}
3{ "text": "questions for me"}

then simply add the x-fern-streaming: true to your OpenAPI operation.

openapi.yml
1paths:
2  /logs:
3    post:
4      x-fern-streaming: true
5      responses:
6        "200":
7          content:
8            application/json:
9              schema:
10                $ref: "#/components/schemas/Chat"
11components:
12  schemas:
13    Chat:
14      type: object
15      properties:
16        text:
17          type: string

Server sent events

If your API returns server-sent-events, with the data and event keys as seen below

1data: { "text": "Hi, I am a" }
2data: { "text": "chatbot. Do you have any"}
3data: { "text": "questions for me"}

then make sure to include format: sse.

openapi.yml
1paths:
2  /logs:
3    post:
4      x-fern-streaming: 
5        format: sse
6      responses:
7        "200":
8          content:
9            application/json:
10              schema:
11                $ref: "#/components/schemas/Chat"
12components:
13  schemas:
14    Chat:
15      type: object
16      properties:
17        text:
18          type: string

Stream parameter

It has become common practice for endpoints to have a stream parameter that controls whether the response is streamed or not. Fern supports this pattern in a first class way.

Simply specify the stream-condition as well as the ordinary response and the streaming response:

openapi.yml
1paths:
2  /logs:
3    post:
4      x-fern-streaming: 
5        format: sse
6        stream-condition: $request.stream
7        response: 
8          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Chat'
9        response-stream: 
10          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ChatChunk'
11components:
12  schemas:
13    Chat:
14      type: object
15      properties:
16        text:
17          type: string
18        tokens: 
19          type: number
20    ChatChunk: 
21      type: object
22      properties: 
23        text: 
24          type: string