Spectral linting rules defining API design standards and conventions for Apache Software Foundation.
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# apache-software-foundation — 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 apache.org
# - operationid-casing: camel @ 100% (n=14)
# - schema-names-casing: pascal @ 100% (n=6)
# - schema-properties-casing: snake @ 93% (n=41)
# - merge: kept 18 existing, added 4 measured, upgraded 0
# - added: servers-expected-domain, operationid-casing, schema-names-casing, schema-properties-casing
extends:
- spectral:oas
rules:
info-title-required:
description: Info title is required
severity: error
given: $.info
then:
field: title
function: truthy
info-description-required:
description: Info description is required and should be at least 30 characters
severity: warn
given: $.info
then:
field: description
function: truthy
info-version-required:
description: API version is required
severity: error
given: $.info
then:
field: version
function: truthy
info-license-required:
description: License information is required for ASF projects
severity: warn
given: $.info
then:
field: license
function: truthy
openapi-version-3:
description: Use OpenAPI 3.x
severity: error
given: $
then:
field: openapi
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: ^3\.
servers-required:
description: Servers array is required
severity: error
given: $
then:
field: servers
function: truthy
servers-https:
description: All server URLs should use HTTPS
severity: warn
given: $.servers[*].url
then:
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: ^https://
operation-summary-required:
description: All operations must have a summary
severity: error
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete,head,options]
then:
field: summary
function: truthy
operation-description-required:
description: All operations should have a description
severity: warn
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete,head,options]
then:
field: description
function: truthy
operation-operationid-required:
description: All operations must have an operationId
severity: error
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete,head,options]
then:
field: operationId
function: truthy
operation-tags-required:
description: All operations must have at least one tag
severity: warn
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete,head,options]
then:
field: tags
function: truthy
operation-summary-prefix:
description: Operation summaries should start with "Apache Software Foundation"
severity: info
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete,head,options].summary
then:
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: ^Apache Software Foundation
response-success-required:
description: Every operation should have at least one 2xx response
severity: error
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete,head,options].responses
then:
function: schema
functionOptions:
schema:
anyOf:
- required:
- '200'
- required:
- '201'
- required:
- '204'
response-description-required:
description: All responses must have a description
severity: error
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete,head,options].responses[*]
then:
field: description
function: truthy
schema-type-required:
description: All schema properties should have a type
severity: warn
given: $.components.schemas[*].properties[*]
then:
field: type
function: truthy
schema-description-required:
description: Top-level schemas should have descriptions
severity: info
given: $.components.schemas[*]
then:
field: description
function: truthy
paths-kebab-case:
description: Path segments should use kebab-case
severity: info
given: $.paths[*]~
then:
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: ^(/[a-z0-9./_-]+)+$
no-empty-descriptions:
description: Descriptions should not be empty strings
severity: warn
given: $..description
then:
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: .+
servers-expected-domain:
description: Server URLs should be on the apache.org domain.
severity: warn
given: $.servers[*].url
then:
function: pattern
functionOptions:
match: apache\.org
operationid-casing:
description: Operation IDs should be camelCase (the dominant convention in this API).
severity: warn
given: $.paths[*][get,post,put,patch,delete].operationId
then:
function: casing
functionOptions:
type: camel
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
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