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Structural improvements: enhance headers handling
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Description
Following (again) ideas from OAI/OpenAPI-Specification#563 and OAI/sig-moonwalk#115, extending OAI/OpenAPI-Specification#369:
- define reusable response headers (like parameters or definitions as proposed in OAI/OpenAPI-Specification#563 by @fehguy )
- set responses headers on each level: whole api, path, operation, responses (and response as stated in OAI/OpenAPI-Specification#369)
paths:
responseHeaders:
# Headers returned on all api responses
/resources:
responseHeaders:
# Headers returned on all /resources operations responses
get:
responseHeaders:
# Headers returned on all operations responses
200:
headers:
# Headers returned on this response
schemas:
responseHeaders:
# reusable headers describe with a Header Object, used with $ref
The problem is the naming consistency: responseHeaders almost everywhere vs headers on response level.
What if we use headers or responseHeaders everywhere?
nb: and don't forget to modify Header Object to include OAI/OpenAPI-Specification#321 (required)
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Research direction
Review the linked OpenAPI Specification issues #563, #115, #369, and #321, then compare the proposed responseHeaders and headers placements in this issue. Determine the consistent naming and Header Object requirements before changing the specification. Done means the structural proposal and required-header behavior are resolved and documented consistently.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- openapi
- Domain
- api, backend-api-design
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100