v3.3: edits to parameter sections#5122
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@karenetheridge thanks for continuing to work through all of these details! Some good catches here. I hope you don't mind me commenting on the draft as it sounds like you are adding more rather than likely to change what you have already posted. Let me know if you would prefer me to wait in the future.
I have a few questions and possible suggestions, and one very reluctant "it's not what I would do but it's what was decided" objection.
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As this PR contains some fixes to things that are incorrect, IMO those commits at least should be backported to 3.2 and 3.1. |
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..such as an empty array or object
namely: in=path, in=query, in=cookie+style=form, but not in=header, in=querystring or in=cookie+style=cookie and not in encoding objects where contentType is used (none of style, explode, allowReserved are present) this brings in some work that didn't get merged in OAI#4904 ..and also fixes a bad $ref URI
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… objects - explode defaults were wrong for in: cookie, style: cookie, and for encoding object - allowReserved defaults were wrong for encoding object in parameter objects: - explode: always false for "in: path", "in: header" - explode: always true for "in: cookie" (both "style: form" and "style: cookie" default to "explode: true") - explode: only true for "in: query" when "style: form" (the default style for this location) in encoding objects: - style: default is "form", but only when "explode" or "allowReserved" are present - explode: default is true when "style: form" (the default style) and otherwise false, and not included at all unless "style" or "allowReserved" are present - allowReserved: default is false, but only when "style" or "explode" are present that is: when none of style, explode or allowReserved are present, "contentType" is used (or a default is calculated), so none of style, explode or allowReserved shall have default values
…ll defaults omitted
tested with:
$ openapi-validate --with-defaults tests/schema/pass/style-defaults.yaml
{
"defaults" : {
"/components/mediaTypes/encoding_object_defaults/encoding/allowReserved/explode" : true,
"/components/mediaTypes/encoding_object_defaults/encoding/allowReserved/style" : "form",
"/components/mediaTypes/encoding_object_defaults/encoding/explode/allowReserved" : false,
"/components/mediaTypes/encoding_object_defaults/encoding/explode/style" : "form",
"/components/mediaTypes/encoding_object_defaults/encoding/style_form/allowReserved" : false,
"/components/mediaTypes/encoding_object_defaults/encoding/style_form/explode" : true,
"/components/mediaTypes/encoding_object_defaults/encoding/style_spaceDelimited/allowReserved" : false,
"/components/mediaTypes/encoding_object_defaults/encoding/style_spaceDelimited/explode" : false,
"/components/parameters/cookie_cookie/deprecated" : false,
"/components/parameters/cookie_cookie/explode" : true,
"/components/parameters/cookie_cookie/required" : false,
"/components/parameters/cookie_form/allowReserved" : false,
"/components/parameters/cookie_form/deprecated" : false,
"/components/parameters/cookie_form/explode" : true,
"/components/parameters/cookie_form/required" : false,
"/components/parameters/cookie_form/style" : "form",
"/components/parameters/cookie_media_type/deprecated" : false,
"/components/parameters/cookie_media_type/required" : false,
"/components/parameters/header/allowReserved" : false,
"/components/parameters/header/deprecated" : false,
"/components/parameters/header/explode" : false,
"/components/parameters/header/style" : "simple",
"/components/parameters/path_label/allowReserved" : false,
"/components/parameters/path_label/deprecated" : false,
"/components/parameters/path_label/explode" : false,
"/components/parameters/path_matrix/allowReserved" : false,
"/components/parameters/path_matrix/deprecated" : false,
"/components/parameters/path_matrix/explode" : false,
"/components/parameters/path_media_type/deprecated" : false,
"/components/parameters/path_simple/allowReserved" : false,
"/components/parameters/path_simple/deprecated" : false,
"/components/parameters/path_simple/explode" : false,
"/components/parameters/path_simple/style" : "simple",
"/components/parameters/query_deepObject/allowEmptyValue" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_deepObject/allowReserved" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_deepObject/deprecated" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_deepObject/explode" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_deepObject/required" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_form/allowEmptyValue" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_form/allowReserved" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_form/deprecated" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_form/explode" : true,
"/components/parameters/query_form/required" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_form/style" : "form",
"/components/parameters/query_media_type/allowEmptyValue" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_media_type/deprecated" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_media_type/required" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_pipeDelimited/allowEmptyValue" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_pipeDelimited/allowReserved" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_pipeDelimited/deprecated" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_pipeDelimited/explode" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_pipeDelimited/required" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_spaceDelimited/allowEmptyValue" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_spaceDelimited/allowReserved" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_spaceDelimited/deprecated" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_spaceDelimited/explode" : false,
"/components/parameters/query_spaceDelimited/required" : false,
"/jsonSchemaDialect" : "https://spec.openapis.org/oas/3.2/dialect/WORK-IN-PROGRESS",
"/servers" : [
{
"url" : "/"
}
]
},
"valid" : true
}
(executable is part of https://github.com/karenetheridge/OpenAPI-Modern)
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For the Appendix C.4 example, "words" is said to not explode its values.
..and remove example that is specific to a particular style, explode and schema type configuration
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Various fixes and wording clarifications to the sections discussing parameters.