API Property Require Vocabulary
api-property-require-vocabulary
info
experience: consistencyexperience: namingexperience: governance
spec: apisspec: properties
Has Vocabulary
This property ensures that there is a centralized vocabulary in use for guiding the creation and usage of tags, path segments, and other metadata associated with an APIs.
Rule definition
The full Spotlight rule — drop it into a ruleset (.spotlight.yaml / .spectral.yaml) and run it with any Spotlight tool.
api-property-require-vocabulary:
title: API Property Require Vocabulary
reference: https://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/apis-json/api-property-require-vocabulary/
description: This property ensures that there is a centralized vocabulary in use
for guiding the creation and usage of tags, path segments, and other
metadata associated with an APIs.
message: Has Vocabulary
severity: info
given:
- $.apis.*.properties.*
- $.common.*
then:
- field: type
function: pattern
functionOptions:
notMatch: \b(vocabulary|vocabularies|Vocabulary|Vocabularies)\b
tags:
- format:apis-json
- spec:apis
- spec:properties
- experience:consistency
- experience:naming
- experience:governance
prompt: "You are editing an APIs.json document to satisfy the Spotlight API
governance rule 'api-property-require-vocabulary' (API Property Require
Vocabulary). Requirement: This property ensures that there is a centralized
vocabulary in use for guiding the creation and usage of tags, path segments,
and other metadata associated with an APIs. To fix: Ensure `type` does NOT
match the regular expression
`\\b(vocabulary|vocabularies|Vocabulary|Vocabularies)\\b`; rename or rewrite
any value that does. This rule is evaluated at the JSONPath
`$.apis.*.properties.* | $.common.*` — inspect every location it matches and
correct only what violates the rule. Make the smallest change that satisfies
the rule, leave all unrelated content, key order, comments, and formatting
unchanged, and keep the document valid APIs.json. Return only the complete
corrected document, with no commentary."
AI fix prompt — send this to Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT with your artifact to auto-fix this rule
You are editing an APIs.json document to satisfy the Spotlight API governance rule 'api-property-require-vocabulary' (API Property Require Vocabulary). Requirement: This property ensures that there is a centralized vocabulary in use for guiding the creation and usage of tags, path segments, and other metadata associated with an APIs. To fix: Ensure `type` does NOT match the regular expression `\b(vocabulary|vocabularies|Vocabulary|Vocabularies)\b`; rename or rewrite any value that does. This rule is evaluated at the JSONPath `$.apis.*.properties.* | $.common.*` — inspect every location it matches and correct only what violates the rule. Make the smallest change that satisfies the rule, leave all unrelated content, key order, comments, and formatting unchanged, and keep the document valid APIs.json. Return only the complete corrected document, with no commentary.
| Artifact | APIs.json |
|---|---|
| Applies at (given) | $.apis.*.properties.* | $.common.* |
| Severity | info — educational by default; raise to warn/error to enforce |
| Reference | https://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/apis-json/api-property-require-vocabulary/ |