The report command will generate a high fidelity recording of a linting run. The report is a replayable data set that can be used to re-render any vacuum report using either the dashboard, or the html-report commands.

The original results are preserved and won’t be changed, regardless how many times the report is re-rendered.

vacuum report

This will generate a report from your my-openapi-spec.yaml and will save the file as myreport-MM-DD-YY-HH-MM-SS.json

You can save these reports and replay them when ever you want, soon you will be able to replay multiple reports, over time!

Compression is best

One thing that I highly recommend, is using compression with vacuum reports. It’s all automatic, all that is required is to pass the -c or --compress flags.

The compressed file is significantly smaller than the original specification, tiny really.

When re-playing a compressed report, vacuum will automatically detect that it’s compressed, and unpack things.

vacuum report with compression

This will generate a compressed report from your my-openapi-spec.yaml and will save the file as myreport-MM-DD-YY-HH-MM-SS.json.gz.

JUnit XML Support

Are you using Jenkins or some other CI that supports JUnit XML reports? vacuum can generate a JUnit XML report instead of a vacuum format JSON report.

Since v0.0.54, the -j or --junit flag can be used to generate a JUnit XML report instead of a vacuum format JSON report.

vacuum report with junit output

Available Flags

report supports the following flags

Short Full Input Description
-c –compress bool Compress the report with gzip (recommended)
-n –no-pretty bool Render a machine-only version (can’t be used with -c)
-h –help bool Show help screen and all flag details
-q –no-style bool Disable color and style console output (useful for CI/CD)
-i –stdin bool Use stdin instead of reading OpenAPI spec from a file
-o –stdout bool Use stdout instead of writing report to a file
-j –junit bool Render a JUnit XML report

Global Flags

report supports the following global flags

Short Full Input Description
-r –ruleset string Use an existing ruleset file for linting
-t –time bool Show how long vacuum took to run (ms)
-p –base string Base URL or Base working directory to use for relative references

Full flags begin with a double hyphen.

Examples

Want something easy to copy and paste?

Optimized for machines, without compression

vacuum report with no-pretty

Use an existing RuleSet with compression

vacuum report using ruleset

Use stdin and stdout

Here is an example of how to use stdin and stdout with the report command, and pipe the output to jq

vacuum report using stdin and stdout

Compatible commands

Reports can be replayed through the following commands: