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

I tried the follwoing in the editor.swagger.io, it satisfies the request of this question and works. The POST request body expects an array. The array is composed of 'stackoverflow' items. Each item is an object, that has name property.

paths:
  /test:
    post:
      summary: test 123
      description: test 123
      parameters:
        - name: param1
          in: body
          required: true
          description: test param1
          schema:
            type: array
            items:
              $ref: '#/definitions/stackoverflow'
      responses:
        200:
          description: OK
definitions:
  stackoverflow:
    type: object
    properties:
      name:
        type: string
        description: name of the object