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.
| 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/schema-include-interface-license/ |