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# amazon-well-architected-tool — 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: 50% of servers already https (warn)
# - path-params-casing: pascal @ 100% (n=60)
# - query-params-casing: pascal @ 99% (n=73)
# - operationid-casing: pascal @ 100% (n=56)
# - schema-names-casing: pascal @ 100% (n=315)
# - schema-properties-casing: pascal @ 100% (n=486)
# - security: global (root) — NOT emitting operation-security-required
# - merge: kept 25 existing, added 4 measured, upgraded 0
# - added: query-params-casing, operationid-casing, schema-names-casing, schema-properties-casing
extends:
- spectral:oas
rules:
info-title-format:
description: API title should reference AWS Well-Architected Tool
severity: warn
given: $.info
then:
field: title
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: ^AWS Well-Architected Tool
info-description-required:
description: API info must have a description
severity: error
given: $.info
then:
field: description
function: truthy
info-version-required:
description: API info must have a version
severity: error
given: $.info
then:
field: version
function: truthy
openapi-version:
description: Must use OpenAPI 3.0.x
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:
description: All server URLs must use HTTPS
severity: error
given: $.servers[*]
then:
field: url
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: ^https://
paths-kebab-case:
description: Path segments should use kebab-case or camelCase (AWS uses mixed)
severity: info
given: $.paths
then:
field: '@key'
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: ^/[a-zA-Z0-9/_{}.-]+$
paths-no-trailing-slash:
description: Paths must not have a trailing slash
severity: warn
given: $.paths
then:
field: '@key'
function: pattern
functionOptions:
notMatch: /$
operation-operationid-required:
description: Every operation must have an operationId
severity: error
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete]
then:
field: operationId
function: truthy
operation-operationid-pascal-case:
description: operationId should use PascalCase (AWS convention)
severity: warn
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete]
then:
field: operationId
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: ^[A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]+$
operation-summary-required:
description: Every operation must have a summary
severity: warn
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete]
then:
field: summary
function: truthy
operation-summary-prefix:
description: Operation summary should start with Amazon Well-Architected Tool
severity: info
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete]
then:
field: summary
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: ^Amazon Well-Architected Tool
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: All parameters must have a description
severity: warn
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete].parameters[*]
then:
field: description
function: truthy
request-body-description:
description: Request bodies should have a description
severity: info
given: $.paths[*][post,put,patch].requestBody
then:
field: description
function: truthy
request-body-json-content:
description: Request bodies should support application/json
severity: warn
given: $.paths[*][post,put,patch].requestBody.content
then:
field: application/json
function: truthy
response-success-required:
description: Operations must define at least one success (2xx) response
severity: error
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete].responses
then:
function: schema
functionOptions:
schema:
minProperties: 1
response-description-required:
description: All responses must have a description
severity: error
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete].responses[*]
then:
field: description
function: truthy
schema-description-recommended:
description: Top-level schemas should have a description
severity: info
given: $.components.schemas[*]
then:
field: description
function: truthy
schema-type-defined:
description: Schema properties should define a type
severity: warn
given: $.components.schemas[*].properties[*]
then:
field: type
function: truthy
security-schemes-defined:
description: Security schemes should be defined in components
severity: warn
given: $.components
then:
field: securitySchemes
function: truthy
get-no-request-body:
description: GET operations must not have a request body
severity: error
given: $.paths[*].get
then:
field: requestBody
function: falsy
delete-no-request-body:
description: DELETE operations should not have a request body
severity: warn
given: $.paths[*].delete
then:
field: requestBody
function: falsy
no-empty-descriptions:
description: Descriptions must not be empty strings
severity: warn
given: $..description
then:
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: .+
components-schemas-exist:
description: Components schemas should be defined for reuse
severity: info
given: $.components
then:
field: schemas
function: truthy
query-params-casing:
description: Query parameters should be PascalCase (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: pascal
operationid-casing:
description: Operation IDs should be PascalCase (the dominant convention in this API).
severity: warn
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete].operationId
then:
function: casing
functionOptions:
type: pascal
schema-names-casing:
description: Component schema names should be PascalCase (the dominant convention in this API).
severity: warn
given: $.components.schemas
then:
field: '@key'
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: ^[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9]*$
schema-properties-casing:
description: Schema properties should be PascalCase (the dominant convention in this API).
severity: warn
given: $.components.schemas[*].properties
then:
field: '@key'
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: ^[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9]*$
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