APIClarity

APIClarity Spec Differ Module API

Compares observed API traces against the provided or reconstructed specification to surface shadow APIs (observed but undocumented), zombie APIs (observed but marked deprecated) and drift. Served under /api/modules/spec_differ.

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Operations 2

POST /{apiID}/start Start Differ for an API #

POST /{apiID}/stop Stop Differ for an API #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: APIClarity Differ
  version: 0.0.1
  description: APIClarity Module API
paths:
  /{apiID}/start:
    post:
      operationId: StartDiffer
      summary: Start Differ for an API
      description: Start Differ for an API.
      parameters:
        - name: apiID
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            $ref: ../../../../../../api3/common/openapi.yaml#/components/schemas/ApiID
      responses:
        '200':
          description: 'Success'
          content:
            'application/json':
              schema:
                $ref: '../../../../../../api3/common/openapi.yaml#/components/schemas/ApiResponse'
        default:
          description: 'Error response'
          content:
            'application/json':
              schema:
                $ref: '../../../../../../api3/common/openapi.yaml#/components/schemas/ApiResponse'

  /{apiID}/stop:
    post:
      operationId: StopDiffer
      summary: Stop Differ for an API
      description: Stop Differ for an API.
      parameters:
        - name: apiID
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            $ref: ../../../../../../api3/common/openapi.yaml#/components/schemas/ApiID
      responses:
        '200':
          description: 'Success'
          content:
            'application/json':
              schema:
                $ref: '../../../../../../api3/common/openapi.yaml#/components/schemas/ApiResponse'
        default:
          description: 'Error response'
          content:
            'application/json':
              schema:
                $ref: '../../../../../../api3/common/openapi.yaml#/components/schemas/ApiResponse'

components:
  schemas:
    Diff:
      type: object
      properties:
        lastSeen:
          description: The time that the diff was last seen
          type: 'string'
          format: date-time
        diffType:
          $ref: '../../../../../../api3/common/openapi.yaml#/components/schemas/DiffType'
        oldSpec:
          description: 'Old spec json string'
          type: 'string'
        newSpec:
          description: 'New spec json string'
          type: 'string'
        path:
          description: 'Path of the diff element'
          type: 'string'
        method:
          description: 'Method of the diff element'
          $ref: '../../../../../../api3/common/openapi.yaml#/components/schemas/HttpMethod'
        specType:
          description: 'the spec type the diff was calculated against'
          $ref: '../../../../../../api3/common/openapi.yaml#/components/schemas/SpecType'
        specTimestamp:
          description: 'the time that this spec was created. used also as spec version'
          type: 'string'
          format: date-time
      required:
        - lastSeen
        - diffType
        - oldSpec
        - newSpec
        - method
        - path
        - specType
        - specTimestamp
    APIDiffs:
      type: object
      properties:
        apiInfo:
          $ref: '../../../../../../api3/common/openapi.yaml#/components/schemas/ApiInfoWithType'
        diffs:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Diff'
      required:
        - apiInfo
        - diffs
    SpecDiffs:
      type: object
      properties:
        diffs:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/APIDiffs'
      required:
        - diffs
    SpecDiffsNotification:
      allOf:
        - $ref: '../../../../../../api3/common/openapi.yaml#/components/schemas/BaseNotification'
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/SpecDiffs'