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Regenerate and validate the OpenAPI contract between `application/backend/` and `application/ui/`. Use when backend endpoints, schemas, request or response models, or API surface change, or when `application/ui/src/api/openapi-spec.json` or `openapi-spec.d.ts` is stale. Handles backend spec generation, UI spec placement, TypeScript type regeneration, and the smallest backend and UI checks needed to confirm the contract still matches.

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Geti OpenAPI Sync

Goal

  • Keep backend OpenAPI output and UI generated API types in sync.
  • Prefer regeneration over manual edits to generated JSON or .d.ts files.

Preferred Workflow

  1. If the backend is not already running, generate the spec from application/backend/ with just gen-api-spec --output-path ../ui/src/api/openapi-spec.json on Unix-like shells, or just gen-api-spec --output-path ..\\ui\\src\\api\\openapi-spec.json on Windows.
  2. If the backend is already running on http://localhost:7860, work from application/ui/ and run npm run update-spec.
  3. If only the JSON spec changed locally, run npm run build:api from application/ui/ to regenerate src/api/openapi-spec.d.ts.
  4. Run npm run format:check and npm run type-check in application/ui/, then the narrowest backend or UI tests affected by the contract change.

When to Use Each Path

  • Use direct backend generation when working offline, in CI-like flows, or before the server is runnable.
  • Use npm run update-spec when actively iterating with a local backend server.
  • Use $geti-backend-dev for backend fixes if generation exposes schema problems.
  • Use $geti-ui-dev for UI changes that consume the regenerated types.

Guardrails

  • Commit the generated spec and .d.ts together when the contract change is intentional.
  • Do not manually edit application/ui/src/api/openapi-spec.d.ts.
  • If generation fails, fix the backend route or schema definitions instead of patching the generated output.