Linting Rules - OpenAPI V3 - Schema Description

Number of APIs: 1

This is a Spectral governance rule to make sure that all schema in an OpenAPI have a description.. Here is a JSON version of the rule that can be applied using this API-driven collection API, or at CLI or CI/CD pipeline.

{
  "openapi-v3-schema-description": {
    "description": "Ensure all schema properties should have a description.",
    "message": "All schema should have descriptions.",
    "severity": "warn",
    "formats": [
      "oas3"
    ],
    "given": "$.components.schemas.*",
    "then": {
      "field": "description",
      "function": "truthy"
    }
  }
}

This request can be run as part of this collection, or dragged and dropped to another collection of governance requests organized by folder, demonstrating how API governance linting works, but also providing a rule that can be used as part of your wider API governance strategy.

  1. OpenAPI V3 - Schema Description POST {{baseUrl}}/linter?rulesUrl=https://rules.linting.org/rules/openapi-v3-schema-description/