LAB / 03 — CONTRACT
Predictable access.
Traceable requests.
A concise guide to the conventions used by the Core customer API. No authentication tokens or live customer endpoints are provided here.
The conventions
- Versioned paths
- The customer API uses an
/api/v1namespace. Deployment-specific base URLs and the complete contract are supplied during an implementation review. - Public identifiers
- Customer-facing resources use public UUID identifiers. Authorization still checks access to the requested record.
- Scoped access
- Authenticated customer context and application scopes keep records within their intended access boundary.
- Request correlation
- An
X-Request-Idsupports correlation between requests, interface errors and operational logs. - Predictable responses
- Documented errors, pagination, filtering and rate limits belong to the versioned contract. Provider responses must not be treated as domain state without validation.
A deliberately small fixture
This is fictional teaching data. Its wrapper is explanatory and does not claim to reproduce a particular production response schema.
sample-package.json
{
"sample": true,
"purpose": "Illustrative fixture; not a live endpoint response",
"package": {
"id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000042",
"status": "received",
"reference": "AP-DEMO-0042"
},
"next_action": "operator_information_review"
}No request is sent to an application server. Downloads are static files.
Before integration
Review the full contract, access scopes, error handling, retry behavior and provider dependencies with the implementation owner. The complete private API documentation remains the source of truth.