FrontSail Describe API

The Describe API from FrontSail — 1 operation(s) for describe.

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Operations 2

GET /describe Describe a DXF drawing as structured JSON #
POST /describe Describe an uploaded DXF drawing #

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OpenAPI Specification

frontsail-app-describe-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Aspicio DXF and PDF Describe API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: Inspect and render drawings — DXF/CAD and the vector content of PDF. A `describe` returns structured JSON facts (the format read, layers with the colors actually drawn, units, bounds, entity counts, text content); a `render` returns the drawing as a PNG or SVG image. `/describe` and `/render` read DXF only, `/describe-pdf` and `/render-pdf` read PDF only, and `/describe-doc` and `/render-doc` accept either and detect the format from the bytes; a typed endpoint handed the wrong format answers 422 naming the one that would have worked. A PDF render shows vector line work and text, not a page facsimile. Input is a fetched `src` URL or the file POSTed as the request body. Drawing endpoints are rate-limited per client IP.
  license:
    name: MIT
    url: https://github.com/frontsail-ai/aspicio/blob/master/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://aspicio-api.frontsail.app
security: []
tags:
- name: Describe
paths:
  /describe:
    get:
      operationId: describeDxf
      summary: Describe a DXF drawing as structured JSON
      description: Returns units, bounds and size, entity and segment counts, per-layer entries with the color actually drawn, per-type entity counts, skipped (unsupported) types, and the drawing's text content (title blocks and dimension values included). Use for structural questions — layers, counts, dimensions, what the drawing says.
      parameters:
      - name: src
        in: query
        required: true
        description: Publicly reachable http(s) URL of a .dxf file (ASCII or binary DXF). Alternatively, POST the DXF file itself as the request body and omit this parameter.
        schema:
          type: string
          format: uri
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/space'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Structured summary of the drawing
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DrawingSummary'
        '400':
          description: Bad input (missing/invalid src, unknown space, private address refused)
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '413':
          description: DXF exceeds the 8 MB limit
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '422':
          description: The file could not be parsed as DXF
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '429':
          description: Rate limit exceeded (per client IP)
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '502':
          description: Fetching the src URL failed
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      tags:
      - Describe
    post:
      operationId: describeDxfUpload
      summary: Describe an uploaded DXF drawing
      description: Same as GET /describe, but the DXF file is the request body.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/space'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/octet-stream:
            schema:
              type: string
              format: binary
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Structured summary of the drawing
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DrawingSummary'
        '400':
          description: Empty request body, or unknown space
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '413':
          description: DXF exceeds the 8 MB limit
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '422':
          description: The file could not be parsed as DXF
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '429':
          description: Rate limit exceeded (per client IP)
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      tags:
      - Describe
components:
  schemas:
    SpaceSummary:
      type: object
      required:
      - name
      - entityCount
      - segmentCount
      - bounds
      - size
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          description: Pass to the `space` parameter to scope to it
        entityCount:
          type: integer
        segmentCount:
          type: integer
        bounds:
          oneOf:
          - type: object
            required:
            - minX
            - minY
            - maxX
            - maxY
            properties:
              minX:
                type: number
              minY:
                type: number
              maxX:
                type: number
              maxY:
                type: number
          - type: 'null'
        size:
          oneOf:
          - type: object
            required:
            - width
            - height
            properties:
              width:
                type: number
              height:
                type: number
          - type: 'null'
    DrawingSummary:
      type: object
      required:
      - format
      - units
      - bounds
      - size
      - space
      - entityCount
      - segmentCount
      - spaces
      - layers
      - entityTypes
      - unsupported
      properties:
        format:
          type: string
          description: Which format was read ("dxf", "pdf")
        units:
          type: string
          description: Drawing unit label ("mm", "in", …) or "" when unitless
        bounds:
          oneOf:
          - type: object
            required:
            - minX
            - minY
            - maxX
            - maxY
            properties:
              minX:
                type: number
              minY:
                type: number
              maxX:
                type: number
              maxY:
                type: number
          - type: 'null'
          description: World-space extents, or null for an empty drawing
        size:
          oneOf:
          - type: object
            required:
            - width
            - height
            properties:
              width:
                type: number
              height:
                type: number
          - type: 'null'
          description: Bounding-box size in drawing units
        space:
          oneOf:
          - type: string
          - type: 'null'
          description: Which space this summary is scoped to, or null when it covers the whole drawing (in which case bounds/size describe spaces[0], the space render returns)
        entityCount:
          type: integer
        segmentCount:
          type: integer
        spaces:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/SpaceSummary'
          description: 'Every space in the drawing (a PDF''s pages, a DXF''s model space and layouts), model space first. These do not sum to entityCount: a DXF sheet''s viewports re-show model geometry, so an entity can be drawn in two spaces while existing once'
        layers:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/LayerSummary'
        entityTypes:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: integer
          description: Top-level entities per DXF type
        unsupported:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: integer
          description: Per-type counts of skipped (unsupported) entities
        texts:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          description: Unique TEXT/MTEXT strings, including inside blocks reachable via inserts and dimensions (title blocks, dimension values)
    Error:
      type: object
      required:
      - error
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable failure reason
    LayerSummary:
      type: object
      required:
      - name
      - entityCount
      - visible
      - color
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
        entityCount:
          type: integer
        visible:
          type: boolean
        color:
          type: string
          description: 'The color actually drawn on this layer (entity overrides included), #rrggbb'
  parameters:
    space:
      name: space
      in: query
      description: 'Which space to work on: "Model" (a PDF''s page 1, a DXF''s model space) or a page/layout name as listed in a describe reply''s "spaces". Describe omits it for the whole drawing; render defaults to the first space. A name the drawing does not have is a 400.'
      schema:
        type: string