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Written by API Evangelist tooling for NEXTDC's API. It is a proposal applied on top of the contract, not a document NEXTDC publishes.
overlay: 1.0.0
info:
title: API Evangelist security overlay for the NEXTDC AXON API
version: 1.0.0
extends: ../openapi/_original/nextdc-axon-openapi.yml
x-generated: '2026-10-22'
x-method: generated
x-source: https://www.nextdc.com/knowledge-articles/axon-api-documentation
x-rationale: The AXON Swagger 2.0 contract declares a single api_key securityDefinition passed in the QUERY, and
it sets no root security requirement. NEXTDC's AXON API Documentation v1.2.5 says the key is passed in the "X-API-Key"
HTTP header in the format key:digest (HMAC, sha256), with an increasing, never-repeated millisecond unix-timestamp
nonce in the "X-API-TS" header. This overlay adds the documented header schemes and a root requirement without
mutating the original. The original query scheme is left in place.
actions:
- target: $.securityDefinitions
description: Add the header-based schemes documented in AXON API Documentation v1.2.5.
update:
axonApiKey:
type: apiKey
in: header
name: X-API-Key
description: AXON API key in the form key:digest. The digest is an HMAC-SHA256 calculated over the request
method, path and nonce, as described in the AXON API documentation. Keys are issued through a NEXTDC pre-sales
representative and are bound to an AXON user and source-IP allow list.
axonNonce:
type: apiKey
in: header
name: X-API-TS
description: Increasing, never-repeated nonce (a unix timestamp in milliseconds or finer) that guards against
replay.
- target: $
description: Require both documented headers on every operation.
update:
security:
- axonApiKey: []
axonNonce: []
- target: $.info
description: Point at the provider documentation.
update:
x-documentation: https://www.nextdc.com/knowledge-articles/axon-api-documentation
x-api-evangelist-note: Sandbox host sandbox-api.axonvx.com, as linked by NEXTDC as the Swagger API Explorer.
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