Canonical Apps API
The Apps API from Canonical — 2 operation(s) for apps.
Canonical Apps API is one of 122 APIs that Canonical publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Application. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, and release notes.
This API exposes 4 operations across 2 paths, and defines 16 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: unix:///run/snapd.socket, unix:///run/snapd-snap.socket.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Canonical Apps API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as X-PEER-CREDENTIALS (PeerAuth).
PeerAuth— Unix Socket Peer Authentication Authentication is not handled via traditional HTTP headers or tokens. Instead, it is managed at the operating system level usin…
Paths & Operations 4
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 2 GET, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Schemas 16
The contract defines 16 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are App (8 properties), AppActionBase (4 properties), Activator (4 properties), ConflictError (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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