Orbital Service
Represents a service connected to Orbital, such as a REST API, gRPC service, database, or message queue.
DataGateways
Properties
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| name |
string |
Name of the service. |
| url |
string |
Base URL of the service. |
| protocol |
string |
Protocol type of the service. |
| operationCount |
integer |
Number of operations exposed by this service. |
| status |
string |
Current connection status of the service. |
| operations |
array |
Operations exposed by this service. |
| types |
array |
Types exposed by this service. |
JSON Schema
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/orbital/refs/heads/main/json-schema/service.json",
"title": "Orbital Service",
"description": "Represents a service connected to Orbital, such as a REST API, gRPC service, database, or message queue.",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Name of the service."
},
"url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"description": "Base URL of the service."
},
"protocol": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Protocol type of the service.",
"enum": ["REST", "gRPC", "SOAP", "Kafka", "Database"]
},
"operationCount": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Number of operations exposed by this service."
},
"status": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Current connection status of the service.",
"enum": ["CONNECTED", "DISCONNECTED", "ERROR"]
},
"operations": {
"type": "array",
"description": "Operations exposed by this service.",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Operation name."
},
"returnType": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Qualified type name of the return type."
},
"parameters": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
"types": {
"type": "array",
"description": "Types exposed by this service.",
"items": {
"type": "string"
}
}
},
"required": ["name", "protocol"]
}
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