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Parameter Enumerators

Requiring that all operational parameters enums meets the policy standards.

Rules

OpenAPI Components Parameters Enum Casing Error

Keeping parameters enumerator casing consistent across APIs helps reduce confusion by consumers, and can keep aligned with services and applications putting an API to work

OpenAPI Components Parameters Enum Casing Info

Keeping parameters enumerator casing consistent across APIs helps reduce confusion by consumers, and can keep aligned with services and applications putting an API to work

OpenAPI Components Parameters Enum Info

Providing enums for your parameters helps reduce errors and keeps the inputs for your API requests more consistent for consumers

Strategies

API Parameters Are Well-Defined and Consistent

All API parameters must have clear names, descriptions, types, and constraints following consistent casing and naming conventions, with reusable parameters centralized in OpenAPI components to redu...

Operations Must Be Useful and Consistent

All individual API operations must be useful and follow consistent Internet, industry, and enterprise standards, providing a simple and relevant HTTP API operation that does one thing and does it w...

Lifecycle

design_services Design Design

Design is where the human experience of an API is won or lost. I work design-first, shaping the paths, schema, errors, and naming in the contract before development begins, so that consistency is b...