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Marc-André Bombeck eddb67975d Publish the idempotency contract the server has honoured all along
`withIdempotency` has made writes safe to retry since v1.5.x. It was described
in route comments and in no schema, so an app generated against
`docs/api/openapi.yaml` could not learn that a retry was safe. The iOS side
asked for it; the mechanism does not change, only what it says about itself.

34 operations now declare `Idempotency-Key` and the `X-Idempotent-Replay`
header, plus the 409 that refuses a duplicate still in flight. The description
leads with the one silent failure in the mechanism: a key that misses
`^[A-Za-z0-9_\-:.]{8,128}$` is IGNORED rather than refused, so the write
proceeds unprotected and looks exactly like a request that carried no key.

## What the work turned up

Three things the contract had wrong or missing, none of them the thing being
built:

- `/api/insights/chat` describes `withIdempotency()` in its header comment and
  applies it nowhere. The Coach chat is not retry-safe. Its prose says it is.
- `/api/measurements` exports GET, POST, PUT and DELETE and wraps only POST.
  Publishing the header per PATH would have promised a safe retry on two
  methods that do not honour one — the dangerous direction, so the guard works
  per OPERATION.
- `/api/insights/feedback` and `/api/admin/backups/{id}/restore` are not in the
  document at all. Both are named in the guard's exemption list with a reason,
  not filtered out silently.

## The guard

`idempotency-contract-publication.test.ts` reads the expected set out of the
route tree on every run — nothing is hand-listed, so it cannot fall behind the
code. It fails in both directions: a new wrapped route that forgets to publish,
and a published claim no handler honours.

A fourth assertion checks the exemption list itself is still true. It earned
its place immediately: the first draft exempted the whole `/api/medications`
family on the strength of a grep for path literals that came back empty. The
paths are not written as literals there; the emitted document carries 19 of
them. The test went red, the claim was wrong, the list is two entries now.
Measure the artefact, not the source that builds it.
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HealthLog API Spec

openapi.yaml is the canonical OpenAPI 3.1 description for the HealthLog Next.js API. It is the source of truth for the native iOS client's DTO codegen.

The MCP server is documented separately — it is a distinct contract over JSON-RPC, not part of the REST OpenAPI spec:

Preview locally

Open an interactive Redoc preview in your browser:

npx @redocly/cli preview docs/api/openapi.yaml

Generate static HTML for sharing:

npx @redocly/cli build-docs docs/api/openapi.yaml --output docs/api/index.html

Validate

npx @redocly/cli lint docs/api/openapi.yaml

The spec is expected to be lint-clean (errors = 0). Some warnings are intentional:

  • no-server-example.com — http://localhost:3000 is the dev server.
  • operation-2xx-response / operation-4xx-response — webhook + redirect endpoints intentionally omit one or the other.
  • no-unused-components — ReminderPhase is exposed for client codegen even though no path response references it directly.

Layout

  • info — title, version (mirrored from package.json), description.
  • servers — production https://healthlog.bombeck.io plus http://localhost:3000 for local development.
  • tags — domain groupings (Auth, Measurements, Medications, Mood, Dashboard, Insights, Achievements, DoctorReport, Integrations, User, Tokens, Notifications, Onboarding, Health, Settings, Analytics, Export, AuditLog, Monitoring, Webhooks, Ingest, Admin).
  • securitySchemes:
    • bearerAuth — long-lived hlk_* API tokens issued via POST /api/tokens. Required on /api/ingest/medication.
    • sessionCookie — HttpOnly healthlog_session cookie set by the password and passkey login flows. Used by the web app and any iOS client running inside a web view.
  • components.schemas — DTOs for all routes plus the underlying Prisma models (e.g. Measurement, Medication, MedicationIntakeEvent, MoodEntry, User, DashboardLayout, ApiEnvelope, ApiError).
  • paths — all routes from src/app/api/**/route.ts, including the /api/admin/* family which is tagged Admin and marked internal.

Conventions

  • Successful responses use the envelope { data, error: null }.
  • Error responses use the envelope { data: null, error: '<message>' }.
  • Pagination uses limit + offset query parameters and a meta: { total, limit, offset } block on the response.
  • All timestamps are ISO 8601 / RFC 3339 (format: date-time) in UTC.
  • IDs are CUIDs (opaque strings).

Updating the spec

When adding or changing routes:

  1. Update the relevant route handler under src/app/api/**/route.ts.
  2. Mirror the change in openapi.yaml. Keep operationId camelCase and stable — the iOS codegen keys off it.
  3. Run npx @redocly/cli lint docs/api/openapi.yaml and resolve all errors. Warnings are tolerated when documented above.
  4. Bump info.version if the change is breaking for clients.