VA Lighthouse Documents Service API is one of 35 APIs that VA Lighthouse publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Documents Service. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a changelog, and authentication docs.
This API exposes
9 operations
across 9 paths,
and defines 41 schemas.
It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.1, at version 3.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://sandbox-api.va.gov/services/address-validation/{version}, https://api.va.gov/services/address-validation/{version}.
9 operations9 paths41 schemas1 GET8 POST
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
VA Lighthouse Documents Service API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as apikey (apikey).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
Paths & Operations 9
Across 9 paths, the API surfaces 9 operations — 1 GET, 8 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Documents Service 9
POST
/uploads/status
Returns the upload status of multiple disability claim documents.
Returns a list of downloadable Claims Evidence claim letter documents, along with their associated metadata, linked to a Participant ID or File Number.
The contract defines 41 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ClaimLetterDocumentV1 (9 properties), UploadRequestV1.UploadData (8 properties), VbmsDocumentV1 (8 properties), ClaimDocumentV1 (7 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
VbmsDownloadDocumentRequestV1.DocumentInfo
object
3 properties1 required
UploadResponseV1.UploadInfo
object
2 properties2 required
ValidateUploadClaimantRequestV1
object
1 property
ClaimantValidationResponseV1
object
1 property1 required
BasicErrorDocumentV1
object
An error response in JSON:API format (see https://jsonapi.org/format/document-structure).
1 property1 required
VbmsDownloadDocumentRequestV1
object
1 property1 required
VbmsSearchDocumentsRequestV1
object
2 properties
ClaimDocumentV1
object
7 properties6 required
UploadRequestV1
object
1 property1 required
UploadRequestAsyncProcessingStatusV1
object
The asynchronous processing workflow status of a single upload request.
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