@jasonbrown , Is it onpremises / cloud ? How big is the swagger file ? Are you sure it’s drupal time out rather Smartdocs Modelling API timeout ? I doubt it’s API timeout, Keep us posted.
Today, SmartDocs is built on top of our own internal representation of API descriptions such as WADL or OpenAPI (formerly known as “Swagger”). This meta-model was a prudent choice when it wasn’t possible to predict a winner in the API description format wars, but much has changed since then.
Since SmartDocs was launched, the OpenAPI Specification format has emerged as the industry standard. Apigee is shifting its strategy away from the current meta-model, to a model that depends directly on an OpenAPI spec. This will simplify things by removing the meta-model, avoiding a layer of abstraction and making templating simpler and bringing greater fidelity to the OpenAPI specification.
For this reason, we are not planning to address edge cases such as large spec files failing to import. We recommend splitting up such large specs into separate files and using those smaller files to work around issues like this one. When the next generation of SmartDocs arrives, it should be more efficient and better equipped to render docs from large specs.