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String format/pattern recommendation #330

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String format/pattern recommendation
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Update documentation/API-design-guidelines.md
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Expand Up @@ -1337,14 +1337,15 @@ This part describes the list of possible messages returned by the API. It also i
This part captures a detailed description of all the data structures used in the API specification. For each of these data, the specification must contain:
- Name of the data object, used to reference it in other sections.
- Data type (String, Integer, Object…).
- If the format of a string is date-time following sentence must be present in the description: `It must follow [RFC 3339](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3339#section-5.6) and must have time zone. Recommended format is yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ (i.e. which allows 2023-07-03T14:27:08.312+02:00 or 2023-07-03T12:27:08.312Z)`
- If the data type is string it is recommended to use appropriate modifier property `format` and/or `pattern` whenever possible. The [OpenAPI Initiative Formats Registry](https://spec.openapis.org/registry/format/) contains the list of formats used in OpenAPI specifications.
- If the format of a string is `date-time`, the following sentence must be present in the description: `It must follow [RFC 3339](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3339#section-5.6) and must have time zone. Recommended format is yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ (i.e. which allows 2023-07-03T14:27:08.312+02:00 or 2023-07-03T12:27:08.312Z)`
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I know this is inherited from the current text, but ISO 8601 defines date format as YYYY-MM-DD. RFC 3339 expresses formats in ABNF, so does not define an equivalent formatting string, but YYYY-MM-DD is not wrong for RFC 3339.

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- If the format of a string is `date-time`, the following sentence must be present in the description: `It must follow [RFC 3339](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3339#section-5.6) and must have time zone. Recommended format is yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ (i.e. which allows 2023-07-03T14:27:08.312+02:00 or 2023-07-03T12:27:08.312Z)`
- If the format of a string is `date-time`, the following sentence must be present in the description: `It must follow [RFC 3339](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3339#section-5.6) and must have time zone. Recommended format is YYYY-MM-DD'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ (i.e. which allows 2023-07-03T14:27:08.312+02:00 or 2023-07-03T12:27:08.312Z)`

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yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ template is typical for java, so it is somehow developer friendly.
As the change would require updating OAS using date-time I would prefer to keep it as it is.

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OK. I didn't realise this was a Java notation. As far as I can tell, whether the letter placeholder is upper or lower case makes no difference to the allowed values. Adding a reference to the Java definition at some point in the future might help interpret this string.

As format: date is used by some APIs, I will add a line for that as well.

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- If the format of a string is `date-time`, the following sentence must be present in the description: `It must follow [RFC 3339](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3339#section-5.6) and must have time zone. Recommended format is yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ (i.e. which allows 2023-07-03T14:27:08.312+02:00 or 2023-07-03T12:27:08.312Z)`
- If the format of a string is `date-time`, the following sentence MUST be present in the description: `It must follow [RFC 3339](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3339#section-5.6) and must have time zone. Recommended format is yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ (i.e. which allows 2023-07-03T14:27:08.312+02:00 or 2023-07-03T12:27:08.312Z)`
- If the format of a string is `date`, a statement MUST be included in the description that the date be specified using the RFC 3339 / ISO 8601 compliant format YYYY-MM-DD

- If the data type is an object, list of required properties.
- List of properties within the object data, including:
- Property name
- Property description
- Property type (String, Integer, Object …)
- Other properties by type:
- String ones: min and max longitude
- String ones: min and max length
- Integer ones: Format (int32, int64…), min value.


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