Schema Include Interface License

schema-include-interface-license

info experience: governanceexperience: documentation spec: apisspec: properties

Has Interface License

This property ensures that an API Commons interface license exists for an API, providing a machine-readable reference for an API, as well as data, backend, and front-end code.

Rule definition

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

schema-include-interface-license:
  title: Schema Include Interface License
  reference: https://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/apis-json/schema-include-interface-license/
  description: This property ensures that an API Commons interface license exists
    for an API, providing a machine-readable reference for an API, as well as
    data, backend, and front-end code.
  message: Has Interface License
  severity: info
  given:
    - $.apis.*.properties.*
    - $.common.*
  then:
    - field: type
      function: pattern
      functionOptions:
        notMatch: \b(api-license|License|license|InterfaceLicense)\b
  tags:
    - format:apis-json
    - spec:apis
    - spec:properties
    - experience:governance
    - experience:documentation
  prompt: "You are editing an APIs.json document to satisfy the Spotlight API
    governance rule 'schema-include-interface-license' (Schema Include Interface
    License). Requirement: This property ensures that an API Commons interface
    license exists for an API, providing a machine-readable reference for an
    API, as well as data, backend, and front-end code. To fix: Ensure `type`
    does NOT match the regular expression
    `\\b(api-license|License|license|InterfaceLicense)\\b`; rename or rewrite
    any value that does. This rule is evaluated at the JSONPath
    `$.apis.*.properties.* | $.common.*` — inspect every location it matches and
    correct only what violates the rule. Make the smallest change that satisfies
    the rule, leave all unrelated content, key order, comments, and formatting
    unchanged, and keep the document valid APIs.json. Return only the complete
    corrected document, with no commentary."
AI fix prompt — send this to Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT with your artifact to auto-fix this rule
You are editing an APIs.json document to satisfy the Spotlight API governance rule 'schema-include-interface-license' (Schema Include Interface License). Requirement: This property ensures that an API Commons interface license exists for an API, providing a machine-readable reference for an API, as well as data, backend, and front-end code. To fix: Ensure `type` does NOT match the regular expression `\b(api-license|License|license|InterfaceLicense)\b`; rename or rewrite any value that does. This rule is evaluated at the JSONPath `$.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-interface-license/