UW Enterprise Web Services Version API

UW Enterprise Web Services Version API — a discovery resource published at the root of both the Student Web Service and the IdCard Web Service. Per-path servers[] in the specification record which host serves which path.

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GET / Get available versions #

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OpenAPI Specification

university-of-washington-version-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: UW Enterprise Web Services Version API
  description: Version discovery endpoint published at the root of each UW-IT Enterprise Web Services service; both the Student Web Service (SWS) and the IdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) expose GetVersions at /.
  contact:
    name: Enterprise Web Services & Events Team
    url: https://itconnect.uw.edu/service/enterprise-web-services-and-events/
    email: sws-support@uw.edu
  version: v5 (SWS) / v1 (IdCardWS)
  termsOfService: https://www.washington.edu/online/terms/
servers:
- url: https://ws.admin.washington.edu/student
  description: UW-IT Enterprise Web Services production host for the Student Web Service
- url: https://ws.admin.washington.edu/idcard
  description: UW-IT Enterprise Web Services production host for the IdCard Web Service
externalDocs:
  description: UW-IT Enterprise Web Services registry
  url: https://webservices.washington.edu/sws/
tags:
- name: Version
x-operator: institution
x-provenance:
  method: derived
  source: openapi/_original/university-of-washington-student-web-service.yaml + openapi/_original/university-of-washington-idcard-web-service.yaml
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  note: Re-based by the university pipeline on 2026-08-30. refine-openapis had welded the IdCard Web Service title/contact/base onto outputs split from the Student Web Service original; identity restored from the true parent named above and the relative base resolved to the production host published on the EWS registry.
paths:
  /:
    get:
      tags:
      - Version
      summary: Get available versions
      description: "<pre>\n                {\n                    \"DisplayTitle\" : \"Service Version\",\n                    \"sws_guid\" : \"3BFD2A3E-5BAE-47D3-9BE2-4A603320F632\",\n                    \"LongDescription\" : \"Get available versions\",\n                    \"ShortDescription\" : \"Get available versions\",\n                    \"OriginatingSchema\" : [{ \"source\": \"hardcoded\" }],\n                    \"Notes\" : \"The version list resource lists the contract versions that are currently available for the service.\n                                Each contract version in the list links to a resource list which provides a list of search resources.\n                                Also provided in this resource are the code versions that supports the given contract versions.\n                                The code version is divided into 2 types:\n                                    Domain Core Version\n                                    Service Version\n                                This is primarily useful for change management.\",\n                    \"Links\" : [],\n                    \"Synonyms\" : []\n                }\n                </pre>"
      operationId: GetVersions
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            text/html:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/VersionListViewModel'
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/VersionListViewModel'
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/VersionListViewModel'
            text/plain:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/VersionListViewModel'
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/VersionListViewModel'
            text/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/VersionListViewModel'
        '202':
          description: Accepted
        '301':
          description: MovedPermanently
        '302':
          description: Found
        '304':
          description: NotModified
        '401':
          description: Identity '{identity}' is not authorized to access this resource.
        '405':
          description: MethodNotAllowed
        '500':
          description: InternalServerError
        '503':
          description: ServiceUnavailable
components:
  schemas:
    VersionViewModel:
      type: object
      properties:
        metadata:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        pageCount:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          description: 'Actual number of records on the current search results page. This must be set by the view in order

            for paging to work.'
        previousPageStart:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          description: The counter value for the start of the previous search results page.
          readOnly: true
        pageSize:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          description: Requested number of records for the current search results page.
        pageStart:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          description: The counter value for the start of the current search results page.
        nextPageStart:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          description: The counter value for the start of the next search results page.
          readOnly: true
        totalCount:
          type: integer
          format: int32
        pageStartOffset:
          type: integer
          description: 'The page start offset. Since sources are generally 0 based and the view

            defaults to 1 based, our offset defaults to -1.'
          format: int32
        format:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ViewFormats'
        versionNumber:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          readOnly: true
        href:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          format: uri
          readOnly: true
      additionalProperties: false
      description: "{\n    \"DisplayTitle\" : \"Version Model\",\n    \"TargetSchema\" : [{\"target\" : \"EWSE.Version\"}],\n    \"TargetOperationId\" : [\"Version\"],\n    \"OriginatingSchema\" : [{ \"source\" : \"hardcoded\" }]\n}"
    VersionModel:
      type: object
      properties:
        key:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        metadata:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        versionNumber:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        isCurrent:
          type: boolean
      additionalProperties: false
    ViewFormats:
      enum:
      - 1
      - 2
      - 3
      - 5
      type: integer
      format: int32
    VersionListViewModel:
      type: object
      properties:
        metadata:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        pageCount:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          description: 'Actual number of records on the current search results page. This must be set by the view in order

            for paging to work.'
        previousPageStart:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          description: The counter value for the start of the previous search results page.
          readOnly: true
        pageSize:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          description: Requested number of records for the current search results page.
        pageStart:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          description: The counter value for the start of the current search results page.
        nextPageStart:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          description: The counter value for the start of the next search results page.
          readOnly: true
        totalCount:
          type: integer
          format: int32
        pageStartOffset:
          type: integer
          description: 'The page start offset. Since sources are generally 0 based and the view

            defaults to 1 based, our offset defaults to -1.'
          format: int32
        format:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ViewFormats'
        listModel:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/IVersionList'
        listViewModel:
          type:
          - array
          - 'null'
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/VersionViewModel'
        title:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        current:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/VersionViewModel'
        supportedVersions:
          type:
          - array
          - 'null'
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/VersionViewModel'
          readOnly: true
        serviceVersion:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        domainCoreVersion:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        environment:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
      additionalProperties: false
      description: "{\n    \"DisplayTitle\" : \"Version List Model\",\n    \"TargetSchema\" : [{\"target\" : \"EWSE.VersionList\"}],\n    \"TargetOperationId\" : [\"VersionList\"],\n    \"OriginatingSchema\" : [{ \"source\" : \"hardcoded\" }]\n}"
    IVersionList:
      type: object
      properties:
        dfdsSendRequestTiming:
          type: number
          format: double
        dfdsOpenRequestTiming:
          type: number
          format: double
        expires:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          readOnly: true
        serviceCodeVersion:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        domainCoreVersion:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        list:
          type:
          - array
          - 'null'
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/VersionModel'
      additionalProperties: false