Schema Include Examples

schema-include-examples

info experience: documentationexperience: usability spec: apisspec: properties

Has a Blog

This property ensures that an API has a reference to a examples for individual APIs or as part of common properties, providing examples and synthentic data that can be used for APIs.

Rule definition

The full Spotlight rule — drop it into a ruleset (.spotlight.yaml / .spectral.yaml) and run it with any Spotlight tool.

schema-include-examples:
  title: Schema Include Examples
  reference: https://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/apis-json/schema-include-examples/
  description: This property ensures that an API has a reference to a examples for
    individual APIs or as part of common properties, providing examples and
    synthentic data that can be used for APIs.
  message: Has a Blog
  severity: info
  given:
    - $.apis.*.properties.*
    - $.common.*
  then:
    - field: type
      function: pattern
      functionOptions:
        notMatch: \b(examples|Examples)\b
  tags:
    - format:apis-json
    - spec:apis
    - spec:properties
    - experience:documentation
    - experience:usability
  prompt: "You are editing an APIs.json document to satisfy the Spotlight API
    governance rule 'schema-include-examples' (Schema Include Examples).
    Requirement: This property ensures that an API has a reference to a examples
    for individual APIs or as part of common properties, providing examples and
    synthentic data that can be used for APIs. To fix: Ensure `type` does NOT
    match the regular expression `\\b(examples|Examples)\\b`; rename or rewrite
    any value that does. This rule is evaluated at the JSONPath
    `$.apis.*.properties.* | $.common.*` — inspect every location it matches and
    correct only what violates the rule. Make the smallest change that satisfies
    the rule, leave all unrelated content, key order, comments, and formatting
    unchanged, and keep the document valid APIs.json. Return only the complete
    corrected document, with no commentary."
AI fix prompt — send this to Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT with your artifact to auto-fix this rule
You are editing an APIs.json document to satisfy the Spotlight API governance rule 'schema-include-examples' (Schema Include Examples). Requirement: This property ensures that an API has a reference to a examples for individual APIs or as part of common properties, providing examples and synthentic data that can be used for APIs. To fix: Ensure `type` does NOT match the regular expression `\b(examples|Examples)\b`; rename or rewrite any value that does. This rule is evaluated at the JSONPath `$.apis.*.properties.* | $.common.*` — inspect every location it matches and correct only what violates the rule. Make the smallest change that satisfies the rule, leave all unrelated content, key order, comments, and formatting unchanged, and keep the document valid APIs.json. Return only the complete corrected document, with no commentary.
ArtifactAPIs.json
Applies at (given)$.apis.*.properties.* | $.common.*
Severityinfo — educational by default; raise to warn/error to enforce
Referencehttps://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/apis-json/schema-include-examples/