Brown University · Schema

SearchResponse

EducationHigher EducationUniversityUnited StatesIvy LeagueResearchResearch RepositoryDigital RepositoryLibraryIIIFIdentity FederationCourse CatalogResearch Computing

Properties

Name Type Description
responseHeader object Solr response header. `params` echoes the query AFTER the service applied its own defaults and clamps, which is how the 500-row cap becomes visible.
response object
links object Present on every search response. Carries a single `login` URL pointing at the affiliation-gated view of the same query — the API's only signal that a larger, Brown-authenticated result set exists beh
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JSON Schema

brown-bdr-searchresponse.json Raw ↑
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/brown/refs/heads/main/json-schema/brown-bdr-searchresponse.json",
  "title": "SearchResponse",
  "x-provenance": {
    "generated": "2026-08-30",
    "method": "derived",
    "source": "Derived from openapi/brown-bdr-api-openapi.yml and openapi/brown-bdr-iiif-openapi.yml, which were themselves derived from Brown's own API documentation wiki plus live probes on 2026-08-30. Brown publishes no JSON Schema. Not a Brown-authored artifact.",
    "x-operator": "institution"
  },
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "responseHeader",
    "response"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "responseHeader": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Solr response header. `params` echoes the query AFTER the service applied its own defaults and clamps, which is how the 500-row cap becomes visible.",
      "properties": {
        "status": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Solr status. 0 on success. Observed as 0 even for malformed queries."
        },
        "QTime": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Query time in milliseconds."
        },
        "params": {
          "type": "object",
          "additionalProperties": true
        }
      }
    },
    "response": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "numFound",
        "start",
        "docs"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "numFound": {
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "start": {
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "docs": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "$ref": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/brown/refs/heads/main/json-schema/brown-bdr-document.json"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "links": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Present on every search response. Carries a single `login` URL pointing at the affiliation-gated view of the same query \u2014 the API's only signal that a larger, Brown-authenticated result set exists behind Shibboleth.",
      "properties": {
        "login": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "uri"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

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