Vendasta · OpenAPI Overlay 1.0.0

API Evangelist conversational phrasing for Platform REST Business Categories API

3 actions 3 updates phrasing extends openapi/vendasta-business-categories-api-openapi.yml

Generated by API Evangelist Written by API Evangelist tooling for Vendasta's API. It is a proposal applied on top of the contract, not a document Vendasta publishes.

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$.info

$.paths['/businessCategories'].get

$.paths['/businessCategories'].options

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# Generated by API Evangelist (build-phrasing.py). Our phrasing, not observed demand.
overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist conversational phrasing for Platform REST Business Categories API
  version: 1.0.0
extends: openapi/vendasta-business-categories-api-openapi.yml
actions:
- target: $.info
  update:
    x-apievangelist-phrasing:
      method: generated
      generated: '2026-10-01'
      generator: build-phrasing.py
      label: Generated by API Evangelist
      operations: 2
- target: $.paths['/businessCategories'].get
  update:
    x-apievangelist-phrasing:
      intent: List or search business categories
      effect: read
      questions:
      - What business categories can I assign to a location?
      - Can I search categories by keyword and get names in another language?
      instructions:
      - text: Search business categories for {term}.
        slots:
          term: query.filter[searchTerm]
      - text: Look up business categories with IDs {ids}.
        slots:
          ids: query.filter[ids]
      method: generated
      generated: '2026-10-01'
- target: $.paths['/businessCategories'].options
  update:
    x-apievangelist-phrasing:
      intent: Check allowed methods for business categories
      effect: read
      questions:
      - Which HTTP verbs does the business categories endpoint allow cross-origin?
      - Does the category list answer a browser's CORS preflight?
      instructions:
      - text: Send an OPTIONS preflight to businessCategories.
      - text: Report the CORS methods permitted on the category catalog.
      method: generated
      generated: '2026-10-01'

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