Redocly Museum API Example

An imaginary, but delightful Museum API for interacting with museum services and information. Built by Redocly for educational purposes.

[!NOTE]
This OpenAPI description uses the OpenAPI 3.1.0 specification.

Overview

Introducing the "Museum API", which offers a set of endpoints to interact with a museum's services--such as retrieving museum hours, managing special events, and purchasing tickets.

New functionality may be added to the Museum API in the future. Is there an example you'd like to see? Please open an issue.

Features

[!NOTE]
Reminder that these are fictional examples for learning purposes. The contents of this repository are illustrations to use with your OpenAPI study or tools exploration.

OpenAPI

• openapi.yaml contains the Museum API. It is an OpenAPI 3.1.0 description.

The Museum API has the following core features (sorted by tags):

• Operations
  • Get museum operational hours
• Special events
  • Get special event data
  • List special events
  • Create and update a special event
  • Delete a special event
• Tickets
  • Purchase museum tickets for general entry or special events
  • Get scannable QR code for museum ticket

Arazzo

• arazzo/museum-tickets.arazzo.yaml is an Arazzo 1.0.0 description of using the Museum OpenAPI source to describe an API sequence.
• arazzo/museum-api.arazzo.yaml is an Arazzo 1.0.0 description using both the Museum API and another Arazzo file to describe a series of multi-step API workflows and passing the variables between them.

Getting started

1. Clone this repo.
2. Open the repo in your IDE.
3. Run npm install to install the Redocly CLI.

Working with the OpenAPI description

We encourage you to explore the museum's OpenAPI description and make changes. Try experimenting with the following approaches:

Preview the Museum OpenAPI example's API docs and observe your changes visually.

• Run npm run preview to preview the documentation.
• Navigate to the List special events operation in the preview.
• With the preview running...
  • Go to the openapi.yaml file in your IDE.
  • Search for listSpecialEvents to find the matching operationId.
  • Replace the description field with the snippet below:

    description: |-
        Return a list of _upcoming_ special events at the museum.

        See one you like? Use this API to [buy a ticket](/#tag/Tickets/operation/buyMuseumTickets).  

See the updated description? This is a great way to preview how end-users of your docs will experience your changes.

Lint your changes to the OpenAPI description using Redocly CLI.

• Open the museum's openapi.yaml file in your IDE.
• Add the following snippet to paths above the /museum-hours operation:

  /example:
    get: 
      summary: Example Summary
      description: Example description
      responses: 
        '200':
          description: Success
        '400': 
          description: Bad Request

• Run npm run lint in your terminal. See the errors?

The linting behavior is controlled by the redocly.yaml configuration file. The linter is configured to use Redocly's recommended ruleset, which are built into the CLI. However, we also added a configurable rule for enforcing sentence casing on operation summaries.

Lint an Arazzo description using Redocly CLI.

• Redocly CLI can also lint formats other than OpenAPI, such as the Arazzo format.
• Run npm run lint arazzo/museum-api.arazzo.yaml to lint an example Arazzo description.