Ubuntu Hardware API (hwapi)
The Ubuntu hardware certification API. Given a machine's hardware identifiers it reports whether that configuration is certified for Ubuntu and on which releases. Serves its own OpenAPI 3.1.0 contract at https://hw.ubuntu.com/openapi.json.
Ubuntu Hardware API (hwapi) is one of 22 APIs that Canonical publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Hardware and Certification. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, organized into 2 resource areas, and defines 21 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.0.
Requests are made against the base URL https://hw.ubuntu.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Paths & Operations 2
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 1 GET, 1 POST. They span 2 resource areas: certification, Operations. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Schemas 21
The contract defines 21 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are RelatedCertifiedSystemExistsResponse (14 properties), CertificationStatusRequest (10 properties), CertifiedImageExistsResponse (7 properties), CertifiedResponse (7 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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