How to describe a model in Swagger for an array with simple objects?

Question

I have a REST services to document, some of them accepts simple array like:

[
  { \"name\":\"a\" },
  { \"name\":\"b\" },
  { \"name\":\"c\" }
]

Answer 1

Paste this to http://editor.swagger.io/#/ and click on "try this operation"

{
  "swagger": "2.0",
  "info": {
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "title": "Privacy-Service API"
  },
  "paths": {
    "/allNames": {
      "post": {
        "consumes": [
          "application/json",
          "application/xml"
        ],
        "produces": [
          "application/json",
          "application/xml"
        ],
        "parameters": [
          {
            "name": "request",
            "in": "body",
            "schema": {
              "$ref": "#/definitions/ArrayOfNames"
            }
          }
        ],
        "responses": {
          "200": {
            "description": "List of names",
            "schema": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "definitions": {
    "ArrayOfNames": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "minItems": 1,
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "name"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "name": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}