Custom Rulesets

Let’s define some terminology:

• Rules: Rules exist to assert certain things are true about a specification file. They exist in rulesets, and have one or more actions
• Rule Action: Rule actions are defined in the code, and can be referenced in various combinations to power the logic of a rule
• Ruleset: These group up rules (and all of their various actions) into a file, which can be distributed for others to use

Ruleset file format

A rules file is a YAML or JSON file containing an object with a rules property, which is an array of rule objects.

There is a reserved require property (type string) at the top level, which can be used for ruleset chaining.

Example

require: default
rules: 
- name: openapi-tags
  object: openapi
  description: "openapi object should have non-empty tags array"
  truthy: tags
- name: default-and-example-are-redundant
  object: "*"
  description: "don't need to define an example if its exactly the same as your default"
  notEqual: ["default", "example"]

Since v0.9.0, Speccy uses oas-linter, which is part of oas-kit by Mike Ralphson.

See the full list of rule actions available to be used in your rulesets.