Apicurio Registry artifact reference

This chapter provides reference information on the supported artifact types, states, and metadata that are stored in Apicurio Registry.

Additional resources

Apicurio Registry artifact types

You can store and manage a wide range of schema and API artifact types in Apicurio Registry.

Table 1. Apicurio Registry artifact types
Type Description

ASYNCAPI

AsyncAPI specification

AVRO

Apache Avro schema

GRAPHQL

GraphQL schema

JSON

JSON Schema

KCONNECT

Apache Kafka Connect schema

OPENAPI

OpenAPI specification

PROTOBUF

Google protocol buffers schema

WSDL

Web Services Definition Language

XML

Extensible Markup Language

XSD

XML Schema Definition

Apicurio Registry artifact states

The valid artifact states in Apicurio Registry are ENABLED, DISABLED, and DEPRECATED.

Table 2. Apicurio Registry artifact states
State Description

ENABLED

Basic state, all the operations are available.

DISABLED

The artifact and its metadata is viewable and searchable using the Apicurio Registry web console, but its content cannot be fetched by any client.

DEPRECATED

The artifact is fully usable but a header is added to the REST API response whenever the artifact content is fetched. The Apicurio Registry Rest Client will also log a warning whenever it sees deprecated content.

Apicurio Registry artifact metadata

When an artifact is added to Apicurio Registry, a set of metadata properties is stored along with the artifact content. This metadata consists of a set of generated read-only properties, along with some properties that you can set.

Table 3. Apicurio Registry read-only metadata
Property Type

contentId

integer

createdBy

string

createdOn

date

globalId

integer

groupId

string

id

string

modifiedBy

string

modifiedOn

date

references

array of ArtifactReference

type

ArtifactType

version

integer

Table 4. Apicurio Registry editable metadata
Property Type

description

string

labels

array of string

name

string

properties

map

state

ArtifactState

Updating artifact metadata
  • You can use the Apicurio Registry REST API to update the set of editable properties using the metadata endpoints.

  • You can edit the state property only by using the state transition API. For example, you can mark an artifact as deprecated or disabled.

Additional resources

For more details, see the /artifacts/{artifactId}/meta endpoint in the Apicurio Registry REST API documentation.