Bureau of Consular Affairs · OpenAPI Overlay 1.0.0

API Evangelist enhancements for Bureau of Consular Affairs discovery-api

1 action 1 update update extends openapi/bureau-of-consular-affairs-discovery-api-openapi.yml

Derived by API Evangelist Built from the contracts Bureau of Consular Affairs publishes. Bureau of Consular Affairs did not publish this file.

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What the actions change

x-apievangelist-providerx-apievangelist-surfacex-apievangelist-artifactsx-apievangelist-warningx-apievangelist-idempotencyx-apievangelist-host-access

Targets 1

$.info

OpenAPI Overlay

overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist enhancements for Bureau of Consular Affairs discovery-api
  version: 1.0.0
extends: openapi/bureau-of-consular-affairs-discovery-api-openapi.yml
x-provenance:
  generated: '2026-09-05'
  method: generated
  source: openapi/bureau-of-consular-affairs-discovery-api-openapi.yml
actions:
  - target: $.info
    update:
      x-apievangelist-provider: bureau-of-consular-affairs
      x-apievangelist-surface: CKAN Action API on the CA Data Catalog
      x-apievangelist-artifacts:
        authentication: authentication/bureau-of-consular-affairs-authentication.yml
        conventions: conventions/bureau-of-consular-affairs-conventions.yml
        errors: errors/bureau-of-consular-affairs-problem-types.yml
        data_model: data-model/bureau-of-consular-affairs-data-model.yml
        conformance: conformance/bureau-of-consular-affairs-conformance.yml
        lifecycle: lifecycle/bureau-of-consular-affairs-lifecycle.yml
      x-apievangelist-warning: >-
        This API returns HTTP 200 on failure. Read the "success" boolean in the response body; the
        status code is not the signal. See the error catalog artifact.
      x-apievangelist-idempotency: none
      x-apievangelist-host-access: >-
        cadatacatalog.state.gov is fronted by a Cloudflare WAF that returned 403 to every automated
        request from this pipeline on 2026-09-05. The operations described here are documented, not
        observed against the live host.

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