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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: catalog Locations API
version: '1'
description: The API surface consists of a few distinct groups of functionality.
license:
name: Apache-2.0
url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
contact: {}
servers:
- url: /
tags:
- name: Locations
paths:
/locations:
post:
operationId: CreateLocation
tags:
- Locations
description: Create a location for a given target.
responses:
'201':
description: Created
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
exists:
type: boolean
entities:
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Entity'
type: array
location:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Location'
required:
- entities
- location
'400':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse'
default:
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse'
security:
- {}
- JWT: []
parameters:
- in: query
name: dryRun
required: false
allowReserved: true
schema:
type: string
- in: query
name: onConflict
required: false
allowReserved: true
schema:
type: string
enum:
- refresh
- reject
description: Behavior when the location already exists. 'reject' (default) returns a 409 error, 'refresh' triggers a refresh of the existing location entity and returns 201.
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
target:
type: string
type:
type: string
required:
- target
- type
summary: Create location
x-summary-source: derived
get:
operationId: GetLocations
tags:
- Locations
description: Get all locations
responses:
'200':
description: Ok
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: array
items:
type: object
properties:
data:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Location'
required:
- data
default:
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse'
security:
- {}
- JWT: []
parameters: []
summary: Get locations
x-summary-source: derived
/locations/by-query:
post:
operationId: GetLocationsByQuery
tags:
- Locations
description: Query for locations
responses:
'200':
description: Ok
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/LocationsQueryResponse'
default:
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse'
security:
- {}
- JWT: []
requestBody:
required: false
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
cursor:
type: string
limit:
type: number
query:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/JsonObject'
summary: Get locations by query
x-summary-source: derived
/locations/{id}:
get:
operationId: GetLocation
tags:
- Locations
description: Get a location by id.
responses:
'200':
description: Ok
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Location'
default:
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse'
security:
- {}
- JWT: []
parameters:
- in: path
name: id
required: true
schema:
type: string
summary: Get location
x-summary-source: derived
put:
operationId: UpdateLocation
tags:
- Locations
description: Update the type and target of an existing location by id.
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/LocationInput'
responses:
'200':
description: Ok
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Location'
default:
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse'
security:
- {}
- JWT: []
parameters:
- in: path
name: id
required: true
schema:
type: string
summary: Update location
x-summary-source: derived
delete:
operationId: DeleteLocation
tags:
- Locations
description: Delete a location by id.
responses:
'204':
description: No content
'400':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse'
default:
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse'
security:
- {}
- JWT: []
parameters:
- in: path
name: id
required: true
schema:
type: string
summary: Delete location
x-summary-source: derived
/locations/by-entity/{kind}/{namespace}/{name}:
get:
operationId: getLocationByEntity
tags:
- Locations
description: Get a location for entity.
responses:
'200':
description: Ok
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Location'
default:
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse'
security:
- {}
- JWT: []
parameters:
- in: path
name: kind
required: true
schema:
type: string
- in: path
name: namespace
required: true
schema:
type: string
- in: path
name: name
required: true
schema:
type: string
summary: Get location by entity
x-summary-source: derived
/analyze-location:
post:
operationId: AnalyzeLocation
tags:
- Locations
description: Validate a given location.
responses:
'200':
description: Ok
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/AnalyzeLocationResponse'
'400':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse'
default:
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse'
security:
- {}
- JWT: []
parameters: []
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
catalogFileName:
type: string
location:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/LocationInput'
required:
- location
summary: Analyze location
x-summary-source: derived
components:
schemas:
AnalyzeLocationGenerateEntity:
type: object
properties:
fields:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/AnalyzeLocationEntityField'
entity:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/RecursivePartialEntity'
required:
- fields
- entity
description: 'This is some form of representation of what the analyzer could deduce.
We should probably have a chat about how this can best be conveyed to
the frontend. It''ll probably contain a (possibly incomplete) entity, plus
enough info for the frontend to know what form data to show to the user
for overriding/completing the info.'
additionalProperties: false
LocationsQueryResponse:
type: object
properties:
items:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Location'
description: The list of locations paginated by a specific query.
totalItems:
type: number
pageInfo:
type: object
properties:
nextCursor:
type: string
description: The cursor for the next batch of locations.
required:
- items
- totalItems
- pageInfo
additionalProperties: false
AnalyzeLocationResponse:
type: object
properties:
generateEntities:
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/AnalyzeLocationGenerateEntity'
type: array
existingEntityFiles:
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/AnalyzeLocationExistingEntity'
type: array
required:
- generateEntities
- existingEntityFiles
additionalProperties: false
Error:
type: object
properties:
error:
type: object
properties:
name:
type: string
message:
type: string
stack:
type: string
code:
type: string
required:
- name
- message
request:
type: object
properties:
method:
type: string
url:
type: string
required:
- method
- url
response:
type: object
properties:
statusCode:
type: number
required:
- statusCode
required:
- error
- response
additionalProperties: {}
RecursivePartialEntityRelation:
type: object
properties:
targetRef:
type: string
description: The entity ref of the target of this relation.
type:
type: string
description: The type of the relation.
description: A relation of a specific type to another entity in the catalog.
additionalProperties: false
Entity:
type: object
properties:
relations:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/EntityRelation'
description: The relations that this entity has with other entities.
spec:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/JsonObject'
metadata:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/EntityMeta'
kind:
type: string
description: The high level entity type being described.
apiVersion:
type: string
description: 'The version of specification format for this particular entity that
this is written against.'
required:
- metadata
- kind
- apiVersion
description: The parts of the format that's common to all versions/kinds of entity.
JsonObject:
type: object
properties: {}
description: A type representing all allowed JSON object values.
additionalProperties: {}
RecursivePartialEntityMeta:
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/JsonObject'
- type: object
properties:
links:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/EntityLink'
description: A list of external hyperlinks related to the entity.
tags:
type: array
items:
type: string
description: 'A list of single-valued strings, to for example classify catalog entities in
various ways.'
annotations:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/MapStringString'
labels:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/MapStringString'
description:
type: string
description: 'A short (typically relatively few words, on one line) description of the
entity.'
title:
type: string
description: 'A display name of the entity, to be presented in user interfaces instead
of the `name` property above, when available.
This field is sometimes useful when the `name` is cumbersome or ends up
being perceived as overly technical. The title generally does not have
as stringent format requirements on it, so it may contain special
characters and be more explanatory. Do keep it very short though, and
avoid situations where a title can be confused with the name of another
entity, or where two entities share a title.
Note that this is only for display purposes, and may be ignored by some
parts of the code. Entity references still always make use of the `name`
property, not the title.'
namespace:
type: string
description: The namespace that the entity belongs to.
name:
type: string
description: 'The name of the entity.
Must be unique within the catalog at any given point in time, for any
given namespace + kind pair. This value is part of the technical
identifier of the entity, and as such it will appear in URLs, database
tables, entity references, and similar. It is subject to restrictions
regarding what characters are allowed.
If you want to use a different, more human readable string with fewer
restrictions on it in user interfaces, see the `title` field below.'
etag:
type: string
description: 'An opaque string that changes for each update operation to any part of
the entity, including metadata.
This field can not be set by the user at creation time, and the server
will reject an attempt to do so. The field will be populated in read
operations. The field can (optionally) be specified when performing
update or delete operations, and the server will then reject the
operation if it does not match the current stored value.'
uid:
type: string
description: 'A globally unique ID for the entity.
This field can not be set by the user at creation time, and the server
will reject an attempt to do so. The field will be populated in read
operations. The field can (optionally) be specified when performing
update or delete operations, but the server is free to reject requests
that do so in such a way that it breaks semantics.'
description: Metadata fields common to all versions/kinds of entity.
additionalProperties: false
Location:
type: object
properties:
target:
type: string
type:
type: string
id:
type: string
entityRef:
type: string
description: The entity ref of the corresponding Location kind entity, e.g. location:default/generated-<sha1hex>.
required:
- target
- type
- id
- entityRef
description: Entity location for a specific entity.
additionalProperties: false
EntityLink:
type: object
properties:
type:
type: string
description: An optional value to categorize links into specific groups
icon:
type: string
description: An optional semantic key that represents a visual icon.
title:
type: string
description: An optional descriptive title for the link.
url:
type: string
description: The url to the external site, document, etc.
required:
- url
description: A link to external information that is related to the entity.
additionalProperties: false
AnalyzeLocationEntityField:
type: object
properties:
description:
type: string
description: 'A text to show to the user to inform about the choices made. Like, it could say
"Found a CODEOWNERS file that covers this target, so we suggest leaving this
field empty; which would currently make it owned by X" where X is taken from the
codeowners file.'
value:
oneOf:
- type: string
- type: 'null'
state:
type: string
enum:
- analysisSuggestedValue
- analysisSuggestedNoValue
- needsUserInput
description: The outcome of the analysis for this particular field
field:
type: string
description: 'e.g. "spec.owner"? The frontend needs to know how to "inject" the field into the
entity again if the user wants to change it'
required:
- description
- value
- state
- field
additionalProperties: false
RecursivePartialEntity:
type: object
properties:
apiVersion:
type: string
description: 'The version of specification format for this particular entity that
this is written against.'
kind:
type: string
description: The high level entity type being described.
metadata:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/RecursivePartialEntityMeta'
spec:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/JsonObject'
relations:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/RecursivePartialEntityRelation'
description: The relations that this entity has with other entities.
description: Makes all keys of an entire hierarchy optional.
additionalProperties: false
LocationSpec:
type: object
properties:
target:
type: string
type:
type: string
required:
- target
- type
description: Holds the entity location information.
additionalProperties: false
MapStringString:
type: object
properties: {}
additionalProperties:
type: string
description: Construct a type with a set of properties K of type T
LocationInput:
type: object
properties:
type:
type: string
target:
type: string
required:
- type
- target
additionalProperties: false
AnalyzeLocationExistingEntity:
type: object
properties:
entity:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Entity'
isRegistered:
type: boolean
location:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/LocationSpec'
required:
- entity
- isRegistered
- location
description: 'If the folder pointed to already contained catalog info yaml files, they are
read and emitted like this so that the frontend can inform the user that it
located them and can make sure to register them as well if they weren''t
already'
additionalProperties: false
EntityRelation:
type: object
properties:
targetRef:
type: string
description: The entity ref of the target of this relation.
type:
type: string
description: The type of the relation.
required:
- targetRef
- type
description: A relation of a specific type to another entity in the catalog.
additionalProperties: false
EntityMeta:
type: object
properties:
links:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/EntityLink'
description: A list of external hyperlinks related to the entity.
tags:
type: array
items:
type: string
description: 'A list of single-valued strings, to for example classify catalog entities in
various ways.'
annotations:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/MapStringString'
labels:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/MapStringString'
description:
type: string
description: 'A short (typically relatively few words, on one line) description of the
entity.'
title:
type: string
description: 'A display name of the entity, to be presented in user interfaces instead
of the `name` property above, when available.
This field is sometimes useful when the `name` is cumbersome or ends up
being perceived as overly technical. The title generally does not have
as stringent format requirements on it, so it may contain special
characters and be more explanatory. Do keep it very short though, and
avoid situations where a title can be confused with the name of another
entity, or where two entities share a title.
Note that this is only for display purposes, and may be ignored by some
parts of the code. Entity references still always make use of the `name`
property, not the title.'
namespace:
type: string
description: The namespace that the entity belongs to.
name:
type: string
description: 'The name of the entity.
Must be unique within the catalog at any given point in time, for any
given namespace + kind pair. This value is part of the technical
identifier of the entity, and as such it will appear in URLs, database
tables, entity references, and similar. It is subject to restrictions
regarding what characters are allowed.
If you want to use a different, more human readable string with fewer
restrictions on it in user interfaces, see the `title` field below.'
etag:
type: string
description: 'An opaque string that changes for each update operation to any part of
the entity, including metadata.
This field can not be set by the user at creation time, and the server
will reject an attempt to do so. The field will be populated in read
operations. The field can (optionally) be specified when performing
update or delete operations, and the server will then reject the
operation if it does not match the current stored value.'
uid:
type: string
description: 'A globally unique ID for the entity.
This field can not be set by the user at creation time, and the server
will reject an attempt to do so. The field will be populated in read
operations. The field can (optionally) be specified when performing
update or delete operations, but the server is free to reject requests
that do so in such a way that it breaks semantics.'
required:
- name
description: Metadata fields common to all versions/kinds of entity.
additionalProperties: {}
responses:
ErrorResponse:
description: An error response from the backend.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
securitySchemes:
JWT:
type: http
scheme: bearer
bearerFormat: JWT