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The API is unversioned with a non-breaking guarantee for 1.0, and the frozen contract is defined by the exported OpenAPI specs plus the ContractFreeze snapshot suite, so a short note in the repo spells that out and links to the fuller policy in the external docs.
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In `@api-versioning.md`:
- Around line 3-5: Update the API contract documentation to reconcile additive
response fields with exact response snapshots: state whether new response fields
are permitted and how corresponding snapshot changes should be reviewed. Specify
that new request fields must be optional or have a server-side default, and
clarify whether OpenAPI descriptions and deprecated markers validated by
ApiDocumentationTest are part of the breaking-change contract or are excluded
when request and response shapes remain unchanged.
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| The Panel's HTTP API is unversioned and carries a non-breaking guarantee: from 1.0 onward, a response field, envelope shape, or accepted request input only changes in ways existing API clients can ignore. New fields and endpoints may appear at any time, but nothing an existing client depends on is renamed, removed, or retyped. | ||
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| Two things in this repository define that frozen contract. The generated OpenAPI documents for the application and client APIs are exported and validated in CI, and the response snapshot suite under `tests/Integration/Api/ContractFreeze` records the exact JSON every endpoint returns. Any change that alters one of those snapshots or the exported specs is a breaking API change and should be treated as such in review, regardless of how small the diff looks. |
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Make the additive-field rule consistent with the frozen snapshots.
Line 3 allows new fields at any time. Line 5 says that any change to the exact response snapshots is breaking. Adding a response field changes an exact snapshot, so contributors cannot determine whether that change is allowed.
Also state that new request fields must be optional or have a server-side default. tests/Feature/ApiDocumentationTest.php verifies schema descriptions and deprecated markers at Lines 63-72, so define whether changes to this non-wire OpenAPI metadata are breaking or whether only request/response shapes are frozen.
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In `@api-versioning.md` around lines 3 - 5, Update the API contract documentation
to reconcile additive response fields with exact response snapshots: state
whether new response fields are permitted and how corresponding snapshot changes
should be reviewed. Specify that new request fields must be optional or have a
server-side default, and clarify whether OpenAPI descriptions and deprecated
markers validated by ApiDocumentationTest are part of the breaking-change
contract or are excluded when request and response shapes remain unchanged.
The snapshot suite now lives at tests/Integration/Api/Fixtures and speaks in fixture terms, so the pointer doc follows suit.
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Last piece of the 1.0 API contract freeze work in this repo. A short api-versioning.md states the commitment: the API is unversioned with a non-breaking guarantee, the frozen contract is defined by the exported OpenAPI specs and the ContractFreeze snapshot suite, and any change that alters either is a breaking API change no matter how small the diff. contributing.md gains a pointer so it comes up in review. The fuller policy text, deprecation windows and announcement process, belongs in the external docs and is linked rather than duplicated here.