Support for custom items inside existing navigation sidebar

[searchableguy]

Can you have existing navigation items on the API page?

I looked through the existing issues and I found some talk about nesting support for multiple API files but nothing about using it with existing navigation items.

Is it possible to add custom sidebar generator?

I will be happy to contribute if it's not too difficult to allow.

[bourdakos1]

We don’t plan on adding a double sidebar like this. We support multiple api files and nesting through collapsing sections in a single sidebar. If you want a double sidebar I would recommend using redocusaurus. Is there a reason you were looking to use this plugin instead?

[searchableguy]

I apologise for not being clear. I'm not asking for double sidebar and embedding generated open API pages inside existing docs.

I want to add custom items to the sidebar aside from the generated API category.

docusaurus for example allow you to customize sidebar with generated elements using sidebar.js

const sidebar = [
    {
      label: "API",
      type: "category",
      items: [
        {
          type: "autogenerated",
          dirName: "openapi", // open API generated sidebar items.
        },
        { 
          type: "link",  // custom ones user want to display.
          href: "example.com"
        }
      ],
    },
   }
 ]

[bourdakos1]

Ooh I see, yes we support that. It’s not well documented at the moment, but I can provide some more information on how to do that shortly

[searchableguy]

Thank you so much. I couldn't find anything about it in the examples and issue so I assumed it wasn't available.

[bourdakos1]

Take a look at this PR #193 for some info on how to structure things to customize the sidebar. There's also an example in the demo with custom md pages added

[bourdakos1]

Oh sorry looks like we haven't released a new version since that PR. If you want, you can follow the doc here: https://github.com/cloud-annotations/docusaurus-openapi/tree/main/scripts

and make a PR similar to this one: https://github.com/cloud-annotations/docusaurus-openapi/pull/192

Then I will approve & merge which will automatically release a new version of the plugin

[searchableguy]

@bourdakos1 I checked the example.

I might be missing it but it does not show to use a custom sidebar.js for the API page. Could you clarify this for me?

I only see support for using markdown pages and have them appear which is great but if someone wants to use their existing sidebar.js, I don't see an option in the example especially relevant if you want to add links.

[bourdakos1]

Ah I see, we don’t have a way to add links. Happy to accept a PR that adds the feature though