Spectral linting rules defining API design standards and conventions for Agricultural Marketing Service.
29 Ruleserror 10warn 19
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Written by API Evangelist tooling for Agricultural Marketing Service's APIs. It is a starting point, not a ruleset Agricultural Marketing Service publishes or enforces.
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# agricultural-marketing-service — Spectral ruleset (strengthened)
# Plain Spectral. Existing hand-authored rules preserved; measured rules added
# from this provider's own OpenAPI conventions by strengthen_ruleset.py,
# then self-validated against the spec.
#
# Provenance:
# - servers-https-only: 100% of servers already https (error)
# - servers-expected-domain: 2/2 servers on usda.gov
# - query-params-casing: snake @ 60% (n=15)
# - operationid-casing: camel @ 100% (n=3)
# - schema-names-casing: pascal @ 100% (n=8)
# - schema-properties-casing: snake @ 100% (n=34)
# - security: neither global nor consistently per-op — schemes-defined only
# - error-schema-defined: ErrorResponse
# - pagination params observed: ['limit', 'offset']
# - merge: kept 23 existing, added 6 measured, upgraded 0
# - added: servers-expected-domain, query-params-casing, schema-names-casing, schema-properties-casing, security-schemes-defined, error-schema-defined
extends:
- spectral:oas
rules:
info-title-required:
description: OpenAPI info must have a title.
severity: error
given: $.info
then:
field: title
function: truthy
info-title-prefix:
description: API title should start with "USDA AMS".
severity: warn
given: $.info.title
then:
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: ^USDA AMS
info-description-required:
description: OpenAPI info must have a description.
severity: warn
given: $.info
then:
field: description
function: truthy
info-version-required:
description: OpenAPI info must have a version.
severity: error
given: $.info
then:
field: version
function: truthy
openapi-version-3:
description: Must use OpenAPI 3.0.x specification.
severity: error
given: $
then:
field: openapi
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: ^3\.0\.
servers-defined:
description: At least one server must be defined.
severity: error
given: $
then:
field: servers
function: truthy
servers-https-required:
description: Server URLs must use HTTPS.
severity: error
given: $.servers[*].url
then:
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: ^https://
paths-kebab-case:
description: Path segments should use kebab-case.
severity: warn
given: $.paths[*]~
then:
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: ^(/[a-z0-9_{}\-]+)+$
paths-no-trailing-slash:
description: Paths must not end with a trailing slash.
severity: warn
given: $.paths[*]~
then:
function: pattern
functionOptions:
notMatch: /$
operation-summary-required:
description: Every operation must have a summary.
severity: error
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete]
then:
field: summary
function: truthy
operation-summary-prefix:
description: Operation summaries should start with "USDA AMS".
severity: warn
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete].summary
then:
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: ^USDA AMS
operation-description-required:
description: Every operation must have a description.
severity: warn
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete]
then:
field: description
function: truthy
operation-id-required:
description: Every operation must have an operationId.
severity: error
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete]
then:
field: operationId
function: truthy
operation-id-camel-case:
description: operationId should use camelCase.
severity: warn
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete].operationId
then:
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: ^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]+$
operation-tags-required:
description: Every operation must have at least one tag.
severity: warn
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete]
then:
field: tags
function: truthy
parameter-description-required:
description: Every parameter must have a description.
severity: warn
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete].parameters[*]
then:
field: description
function: truthy
parameter-schema-required:
description: Every parameter must have a schema.
severity: error
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete].parameters[*]
then:
field: schema
function: truthy
response-success-required:
description: Every operation must define at least one 2xx response.
severity: error
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete].responses
then:
function: truthy
response-description-required:
description: Every response must have a description.
severity: warn
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete].responses[*]
then:
field: description
function: truthy
schema-description-required:
description: Top-level component schemas should have a description.
severity: warn
given: $.components.schemas[*]
then:
field: description
function: truthy
schema-property-snake-case:
description: Schema property names should use snake_case.
severity: warn
given: $.components.schemas[*].properties[*]~
then:
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: ^[a-z][a-z0-9_]*$
get-no-request-body:
description: GET operations must not have a request body.
severity: error
given: $.paths[*].get
then:
field: requestBody
function: falsy
no-empty-descriptions:
description: Descriptions must not be empty strings.
severity: warn
given: $..description
then:
function: truthy
servers-expected-domain:
description: Server URLs should be on the usda.gov domain.
severity: warn
given: $.servers[*].url
then:
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: usda\.gov
query-params-casing:
description: Query parameters should be snake_case (the dominant convention in this API).
severity: warn
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete].parameters[?(@.in=='query')]
then:
field: name
function: casing
functionOptions:
type: snake
schema-names-casing:
description: Component schema names should be PascalCase (the dominant convention in this API).
severity: warn
given: $.components.schemas
then:
field: '@key'
function: casing
functionOptions:
type: pascal
schema-properties-casing:
description: Schema properties should be snake_case (the dominant convention in this API).
severity: warn
given: $.components.schemas[*].properties
then:
field: '@key'
function: casing
functionOptions:
type: snake
security-schemes-defined:
description: Security schemes should be defined in components.
severity: warn
given: $.components
then:
field: securitySchemes
function: truthy
error-schema-defined:
description: A shared error schema (ErrorResponse) should be defined for error payloads.
severity: warn
given: $.components.schemas
then:
field: ErrorResponse
function: truthy
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