Specmatic Contract
Represents an API contract in the Specmatic platform, derived from an API specification file.
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{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"$id": "https://specmatic.io/schemas/contract",
"title": "Specmatic Contract",
"description": "Represents an API contract in the Specmatic platform, derived from an API specification file.",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Unique identifier for the contract."
},
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Human-readable name for the contract."
},
"specificationFormat": {
"type": "string",
"enum": ["OpenAPI", "AsyncAPI", "gRPC", "GraphQL", "WSDL", "Arazzo", "Avro"],
"description": "Format of the API specification that defines the contract."
},
"specificationVersion": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Version of the specification format (e.g., '3.1.0' for OpenAPI)."
},
"protocol": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"HTTP", "Kafka", "JMS", "AMQP", "SOAP", "Redis", "gRPC",
"GraphQL", "GooglePubSub", "RabbitMQ", "ActiveMQ", "AWSSNS",
"AWSSQS", "AWSEventBridge", "IBMMQ", "MQTT", "WebSocket", "MCP"
],
"description": "Communication protocol the contract covers."
},
"specificationUrl": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"description": "URL or file path to the raw specification file."
},
"backwardCompatible": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Whether the current version is backward compatible with the previous version."
},
"coveragePercent": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": 0,
"maximum": 100,
"description": "Percentage of specification paths/operations covered by tests."
},
"createdAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"description": "Timestamp when the contract was first registered."
},
"updatedAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"description": "Timestamp of the last contract update."
}
},
"required": ["id", "name", "specificationFormat", "protocol"],
"additionalProperties": false
}
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