Orbital · Schema

Orbital Service

Represents a service connected to Orbital, such as a REST API, gRPC service, database, or message queue.

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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.
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JSON Schema

service.json Raw ↑
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$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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